What is the difference between Maximum Total Connections and Maximum Total Connections per host/route for HTTP Client Resource?

What is the difference between Maximum Total Connections and Maximum Total Connections per host/route for HTTP Client Resource?

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What is the difference between Maximum Total Connections and Maximum Total Connections per host route for HTTP Client Resource?

Issue/Introduction

Difference between Maximum Total Connections and Maximum Total Connections per host route for HTTPClient-Resource

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All Operating Systems

Resolution

The "Maximum Total Connections" is the total number of connections available in the pool. The "Maximum Total Connections Per Host or Route" is the maximum number of connections to a particular host. For example, if you have Max Per Host or Route set to 5 and Max Total set to 25, that means you can simultaneously use up to 5 connections for every target host: 5 connections with google.com, another 5 connections with yahoo.com, and so on. The total amount of open connections can't however exceed 25 regardless of the number of hosts you're communicating with.