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miles zarathustra commented on HTTPCLIENT-1201:
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I was able to find the source code in SVN, but not the site.  I looked in these 
places (and thereabouts):

http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/source-repository.html
http://hc.apache.org/dev-docs.html
http://wiki.apache.org/HttpComponents/WebSite
http://www.apache.org/dev/version-control.html

N.B. the 'project sources' link on the below page takes me to API docs, NOT 
project sources.
http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpclient/index.html

I think I am giving up for today.

Thanks,
  -= miles =-





                
> provide basic documentation in an obvious place
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 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
>
> 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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