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Eric Hubert commented on HTTPCLIENT-1201:
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I'm very much impressed how kind and polite the replies of all the voluntary
http client developers and maintainers are, who invest remarkable effort and
time in not only providing an excellent library free of charge, giving great
user support but also providing concise and correct documentation, almost
independent of the way end users present their personal feedback (including
most inappropriate phrases like "esoteric arcane junk").
I for one do like the very structured tutorial starting from the very basics
(fundamentals) including some of the required http background knowledge
ensuring that end users do not run into common pitfalls and misconceptions and
do not end up using some sample code fragments which may work perfectly fine,
but which they do not understand at all. It of course also covers more advanced
topics which not everyone (maybe including you) might need.
As Oleg already pointed out, one of the first things the tutorial explains in
the fundamentals chapter is the production of entity content including
submission of html forms with parameters (1.1.7). It is quite easy to find.
Equally easy as the use of the fluent API (additional module) which may also be
a viable choice for simple use cases.
So you may want to have a look at:
http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/fluent.html#d5e1259
as well also containing sample code to submit an html form which you may even
like more (depending on your actual use case).
I tend to agree that the http client project may not provide the kind of
quickstart information some type of developers may look for at first, but I
have to strongly disagree with your comments about the usefulness and quality
of the tutorial. HttpComponent guys, please keep up your good work and friendly
nature as well!
Just wanted to let all of you know that there are quite different users and
views out there.
> 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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