13. HTTP Clients

Spring Cloud Netflix will automatically create the HTTP client used by Ribbon, Feign, and Zuul for you. However you can also provide your own HTTP clients customized how you please yourself. To do this you can either create a bean of type ClosableHttpClient if you are using the Apache Http Cient, or OkHttpClient if you are using OK HTTP.

	Note
	When you create your own HTTP client you are also responsible for implementing the correct connection management strategies for these clients. Doing this improperly can result in resource management issues.