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Oleg Kalnichevski resolved HTTPCLIENT-889.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Fixed in SVN trunk.

Oleg

> Should USE_EXPECT_CONTINUE be false by default?
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>
>                 Key: HTTPCLIENT-889
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-889
>             Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: HttpClient
>    Affects Versions: 4.0 Final
>            Reporter: Ren Waldura
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 4.1 Alpha1
>
>
> It seems the point of USE_EXPECT_CONTINUE is to improve performance when 
> posting large data. 
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec8.html says:
> << The purpose of the 100 (Continue) status (see section 10.1.1) is to allow 
> a client that is sending a request message with a request body to determine 
> if the origin server is willing to accept the request (based on the request 
> headers) before the client sends the request body. In some cases, it might 
> either be inappropriate or highly inefficient for the client to send the body 
> if the server will reject the message without looking at the body. >>
> There's nothing wrong with HttpClient performing well by default, however, 
> every other HTTP client library I've used does not behave like this (PHP 
> curl, Perl LWP). The default is always to do one request, including the body. 
> Maybe dumb, but simple.
> It seems to me HttpClient's default behavior should the simplest, most 
> compatible with all HTTP-speaking services out there. "100 Continue" is 
> somewhat advanced, and may not be correctly implemented by all services. 
> (That's of course how I found out about it -- my server doesn't implement it.)
> If USE_EXPECT_CONTINUE is used only for performance reasons, it seems like it 
> would be simpler (and therefore maybe more "correct") to have it "off" by 
> default. And only enable it when needed, when there is a good reason to.
> Just my thoughts. And a wish. Thanks! 

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