Please see my responses below.
On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 07:04 PM, Yue Luo wrote:
Hi,
I am new to httpclient. I have a few general questions about the
library and wonder if you could help me.
1. HTTP 1.1 standard supports pipelining (RFC2616 section 8.1.2.2). I
looked at HttpMethodBase.java. It seems that httpclient does not allow
pipelining. Is it true? Is pipelining used in any popular browsers?
You are correct. HttpClient does not support pipelining. There is no current plan to add support for it. If it were to be added my guess is that it would not be until 3.0, when the request/response code is split into two separate pieces. I think this will be required for pipelining to work correctly.
As far as support for pipelining in browsers/web servers I have no idea. This is a good question. I will look around to see if I can find anything. Please let us know if you make any discoveries as well.
2. I did not see httpclient using java.nio package. So I guess that it does not provide asynchronous API either. Is there any plan to take advantage of the nio package and add asynchronous API?
Yes, HttpClient is compatible down to JRE 1.2.2 and as such cannot use nio. There are no current plans to add pluggable nio support.
3. The links to mailing lists on the page: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/mail-lists.html does not work. Will anyone put the correct link on the web?
I assume you mean the mailing list archives. It seems that they are not working. Try <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=httpclient-commons-dev&r=1&w=2>.
Mike
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