+1 to drop them Antonio
2017-01-25 18:28 GMT+01:00 Milamber <milam...@apache.org>: > > HTML Link Parser element is probably rarely used and can be deprecated imho > > HTTP URL Re-writing element can be useful for testing webapp without > cookie manager but probably for a very old app of the time when the cookie > is appeared into the browsers... Probably it's can be deprecated too. > > > > On 25/01/2017 16:44, Philippe Mouawad wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> What do you think of deprecating HTML Link Parser and HTTP URL Re-writing >> Modifier? >> >> - I am not sure they are widely used >> - Their design does not suit well for performance as : >> - they require Previous Response, as a consequence, they do not >> work >> in Distributed mode >> - they use a Dom parser + Tidy >> - They are based on old HTML parser so I don't think they work >> properly with new HTML 5 code >> - They suffer from old bugs: >> - https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17252 >> - https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59943 => It was >> not >> reported on this element, but investigation showed it was affected >> >> We could ask question on User mailing list and twitter to see if it's >> used. >> >> >> Regards >> Philippe M. >> @philmdot >> >> >
