Spring Boot offers a number of starters that work with HTTP clients. This section answers questions related to using them.
As described in io.adoc, you can use a RestTemplateCustomizer with RestTemplateBuilder to build a customized RestTemplate.
This is the recommended approach for creating a RestTemplate configured to use a proxy.
The exact details of the proxy configuration depend on the underlying client request factory that is being used.
When Reactor Netty is on the classpath a Reactor Netty-based WebClient is auto-configured.
To customize the client’s handling of network connections, provide a ClientHttpConnector bean.
The following example configures a 60 second connect timeout and adds a ReadTimeoutHandler:
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Note the use of ReactorResourceFactory for the connection provider and event loop resources.
This ensures efficient sharing of resources for the server receiving requests and the client making requests.
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