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miles zarathustra commented on HTTPCLIENT-1201:
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OK, so I do this:
$ svn co
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/trunk/src/site/
...
$ mvn site
...
and I get this:
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Cannot execute mojo: site. It requires a project with an existing
pom.xml, but the build is not using one.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
I am neither a maven nor a svn expert, so I'm somewhat at a loss.
Once I get this to build, I should be able to create some patches.
Also, I appreciate the mention of the fluent facade. It might be worth
mentioning along with the links to the 'quick start.' After all, the ability
to create links to documentation was the whole reason that the WWW was invented.
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
>
> 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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