Folks Can we make a decision of some sort?
Michael, you seem to prefer we continue to support MIME in HttpClient. What we can do is to add a statement to the HttpClient 5.5 release notes that we are considering dropping support for MIME entities in HttpClient in favor of Apache Mime4J and ask those who would like us to continue to support MIME get in touch. Some commitment to help us maintain MIME code would also help Oleg On Sun, 2025-03-16 at 14:27 +0100, Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > On Sun, 2025-03-16 at 08:51 -0400, Gary Gregory wrote: > > Taking a peek at their web site, they mention having a parser. > > Mime4j is a proper MIME library with a highly optimized pull parser > and > a fully featured DOM builder. > > I used to contribute to Mime4j quite a lot in 201x. > > > > Would > > this help remedy the ongoing discussion around clients and message > > boundaries? > > > > Likely not, but it would shift the burden of having to deal with the > "security professions" to Mime4j developers. Something that they can > certainly do better than us. > > Oleg > > > > Gary > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 6:06 AM Oleg Kalnichevski > > <ol...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > Folks > > > > > > I propose we deprecate the existing MIME functionality in favor > > > of > > > Apache Mime4j. > > > > > > That was the initial plan all along. We should have stuck to it. > > > > > > Oleg > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org
