We are unsure whether we should use SSL in order to communicate with our Solr server since it will increase the cost of creating http connections. If we go for SSL, is it advisable to do some additional settings for the HttpClient in order to reduce the connection costs?
After reading the Commons Http Client documentation, it is not clear to me whether a connection pooling mechanism is enabled by default since the documentation differs between version 4.1 and 3.1 (Solr uses the latter).
Solr will run on Resin 4 with Apache 2.2, so perhaps we need to do some additional adjustments in the httpd.conf file as well in order to prevent Apache from closing the connections.
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