Github user rvesse commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/151
My major concern with this pull request is that it replaces a nicely
encapsulated API with requiring users to directly interact with a lower level
API. It seems like there should be room for compromise i.e. Keeping
`HttpAuthenticator` but perhaps having it simply operate over a
`HttpClientBuilder` instead
I am also unclear how more complex authentication such as forms based
authentication which requires some sort of out of band login and presenting
some token with each request e.g. a cookie. Part of the reason the original API
was introduced by myself was that I needed to interact with systems that relied
upon forms based authentication. As I understand that the proposed new API I
would have to manage that login myself and pass the resulting `HttpContext`
everywhere that needs it?
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