Sorry, I missed that RFE when I searched (I thought "optimize internal calls" meant something about refactoring) I'll look at the approach you recommend. But the customized HTTP Client extension might be a less patch-intensive way for me to bridge the gap in between now and 1.2M1.
> I understand your requirement. There is a related RFE to cover this: > http://restlet.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=157

