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Sebb commented on HTTPCLIENT-1201:
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Which pages are you referring to?
The httpclient main page [1] has several links to documentation.
The menu on the LHS has several entries:
QuickStart:
Tutorial
Examples
Client HTTP Programming Primer
NTLM Guide
Logging
The main body of the page has links under the "Documentation" section to the
tutorial and the samples.
If those are not sufficient, where exactly would you expect to find the links?
[1] http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/index.html
> provide basic documentation in an obvious place
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> Key: HTTPCLIENT-1201
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1201
> Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Documentation
> Affects Versions: 4.2 Final
> Reporter: miles zarathustra
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> The only documentation obviously linked from the main HttpClient page is the
> "tutorial." This "tutorial" talks about a lot of esoteric arcane junk I
> don't care about, but gives no clue on how to send parameters via a basic
> post. For that, I have to go here:
> http://wiki.apache.org/HttpComponents/QuickStart
> It's very difficult to find, and it's a lot easier to google examples that
> don't work. I wound up trying 4 different purported solutions before I found
> this one that works. If you look around the web you'll notice that people
> generally find the httpclient documentation frustrating. I have colleagues
> who argue that it would be easier to just write the post logic from scratch
> than figure out how the silly apache stuff works, and it's difficult for me
> to contradict them.
> It would be SO easy to improve the situation by making links to already
> available examples of the basic operations in an obvious place.
> The FAQ that explains some things about WHY the posts work in the totally
> non-intuitive way that they do would be nice also.
> Thanks.
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