Before inquiring as to the Java 1.1.8 status, let me introduce myself. My name is Sam Berlin, and I'm a developer for LimeWire (www.limewire.org). We are in the process of adding more generic HTTP handling to LimeWire, and have run into one of the many problems with Sun's HttpUrlConnection -- mainly, the fact that it hangs if a socket is closed before any input is read. It is possible to wrap all HttpUrlConnection openings around another class and have some watchdog thread kill them off as they hang, but ideally we wouldn't have to do that. The quandry brought us to looking at other http managers, and ultimately Jakarta's HttpClient.
I have succesfully (and very easily!) managed to convert some places in our code to using HttpClient, but we must allow backwards compability with Java 1.1.8, as we have many MacOS 9 (and below) users. (We still receive 10,000+ downloads a week from Mac Classic users.) We would very much like to use HttpClient, as it seems to have a very generic/extensible structure that would fit very well into other places of our code.
Searching the archives revealed that Oleg Kalnichevski posted on Sept 23rd that he ported rc1 to be compatable with 1.1.8. Will this process be continuing? Is there a 1.1.8 compatable version (or is one planned) for rc2 and the eventual release?
Thank you in advance, and my apologies for immediately asking a question after joining the list.
Sam
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