Given this, do you think we should revert the patch [2]? It only
"extends" the reflection stuff to properly set the method in HTTPS
connections, so in practice I think the code could remain. If we keep
the patch, at least we would be able to use PATCH requests with a body
over HTTPS, as the sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection only
fails then the protocol is HTTP.
WDYT?
Fine with keeping it in. It doesn't break anything (as far as we
know), and reverting will still leave us with "reflection code without
a purpose".
Looks like we have some serious engineering ahead of us for 1.8.0. Do
we know anything about the support for different HTTP methods in the
Java 7 or 8 libraries..?
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