----- Original Message ----- From: "CHEN,SHIH-CHANG (HP-NewJersey,ex2)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Boyd, Garth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:38 PM Subject: RE: HTTPSender
> Yes, we just discussed that. If this code is helpful for > general cases, we would like to contribute that. However, > the jsse stuff still need times to do... And a good news > for http client is that jdk1.4 will fully implement > RFC2616(http1.1). I attended a networking session of javaone. yes, but will it be any good? the reason for jakarta's httpclient is that it works, and works consistenly across all java1.2+ platforms. java.net misbehaves differently on java1.2 to java1.3, with things like cookie handling, error handling, and on both it sometimes does stupid things like downgrade the content length if the response is shorter than it promises and the full response (headers and bodies) comes in a single TCP packet or MTU size or less. If we rely on java1.4 for clients to work, Axis won't work for a lot of clients out there. But if we mandate httpclient then the client download is bigger. Best would be some kind of facade. and of course, if httpclient isnt complete, you can make changes... -steve
