On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:
> For historical, mainly political, reasons HttpComponent project was
> restricted from developing server side code which could be seen as
> overlapping or even competing with other Apache projects.

In that vein, is there a separate package/project which is only the
HTTP transport layer used by say Tomcat?

> This restriction probably no longer makes any sense, so given enough interest
> such components could be developed, but there is simply not enough
> resources to do so.

If Tomcat (or any other Java HTTP server) were to use HttpCore as it's
HTTP transport layer, then I would think there would be plenty of
resources... my $0.02 not knowing any of the politics :-)

> Mainly because there are different cookie standards and different ways
> of parsing and formatting cookie headers.

Understood, but these different ways/standards appear to be well
encapsulated/developed on the client side, just not the server side.

If someone were to put effort into developing these "server" cookies;
what type of design decisions should go into it? It seems as though
the ClientCookie (and classes BasicClientCookie & BasicClientCookie2)
have all the methods required for a server cookie, only the toString
method would need to be overwritten to generate the Set-Cookie (and
Set-Cookie2) header strings respectively.

Thoughts?

Thanks...

Bill-

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