HTTP Connection closes after a wait time of 10 mins or more

[wicknicks]

The HTTP connection used by SimpleGeoPlacesClient.getInstance() to connect with the server closes which causes the following exception to be thrown:

org.apache.http.NoHttpResponseException: The target server failed to respond
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultResponseParser.java:101)
at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractMessageParser.parse(AbstractMessageParser.java:210)
at org.apache.http.impl.AbstractHttpClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractHttpClientConnection.java:271)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(DefaultClientConnection.java:227)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractClientConnAdapter.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractClientConnAdapter.java:209)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doReceiveResponse(HttpRequestExecutor.java:292)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:126)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:483)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:641)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:731)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:709)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:700)
at com.simplegeo.client.http.OAuthHttpClient.executeOAuthRequest(Unknown Source)
at com.simplegeo.client.AbstractSimpleGeoClient$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

The exception is noticed only after 10-20 mins after the first connect (which was successful). The OAuthClient handles this by reconnecting to the server. It would be great if this exception could be hidden or we could check the connection status and handle it appropriately without letting exceptions to be spilled out.

You can find a copy of my code here: http://pastebin.com/T0tHi8Wx