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miles zarathustra commented on HTTPCLIENT-1201:
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The menu on the LHS is pretty cryptic (and tiny). Maybe I'm simple minded, but
when I'm looking for documentation I focus on the big section title that says
"DOCUMENTATION."
When I go to http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/ there is a big
section called "Documentation." Nowhere in that section can I find basic POST
and GET examples. All you need to do is add a link to the WIKI example from
that section entitled "Documentation."
Most people will probably not care about the material in the tutorial.
The tutorial does not (that I can see) include a basic simple, complete example
of a post with parameters. Even in the fundamentals section. That should be the
FIRST (or second) example, since it is one of the most common operations.
All I'm asking is that you put a link to a basic, complete example of both POST
and GET at the top of the Documentation section. This should be a no-brainer
that takes about 5 minutes. What would it hurt to do this?
Once again, here is the basic example.
http://wiki.apache.org/HttpComponents/QuickStart
I request that you put this at the top, since it precedes most anything else
you might want to do.
Sorry for being repetitious, but I thought what I was saying would be obvious,
and apparently it's not.
Thanks,
-= miles =-
> 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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