Nathan of Guardian:
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015, at 05:25 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> Hey Amogh and anyone else interested,
>>
>> I just looked into using Apache HttpClient for Android[1] on
>> android-23/6.0.
>> Google provides a compatibility library which re-adds the old HttpClient
>> that
>> is included in older versions of Android. So rather than maintaining
>> ch.boye,
>> I think it makes sense to switch Orfox to Apache HttpClient for
>> Android[1],
>> and use the compatibility library. That jar is found here:
>>
>> $ANDROID_HOME/platforms/android-23/optional/org.apache.http.legacy.jar
>>
>> With gradle builds, it can be included like this:
>>
>> android {
>> useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy'
>> }
>>
>> https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.3.x/android-port.html
>>
>
> If I remember correctly, the reason NetCipher had the ch.boye dependency
> at all was that I couldn't get SOCKS proxying and perhaps some of the
> other hardening features working with the built-in
> Android httpclient.
Apache HttpClient for Android should be closer to ch.boye than the built-in
HttpClient. It is the latest version of the standard Apache HttpClient, but
uses the Android-builtin classes where there are conflicts. It then provides
the standard classes in renamed versions.
> Also, for Orfox, is ch.boye our dependency or did that come from Mozilla
> upstream?
That came from upstream.
hc
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