On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Oleg, Sebastian, > > > (1) Ship HttpClient 4.0 without NTLM support at all > > That'd be my preference. We don't want to support the > NTLM code we have, so we've got to drop it. We can at > some time add an extra module http-auth-ntlm based on > jCIFS, hosted either at Apache or elsewhere depending > on whether we can make use of the "system dependency" > loophole. > > > Sun Java on Windows supports NTLM since 1.4. > > Unfortunately, that functionality is inseparably > tied to HttpURLConnection. There is no way at all > we could make the Sun code work with HttpComponents. > > > Apart from NTLM auth, we are also missing the > multipart entity functionality. I was thinking > about a wrapper in the contrib code that adapts > the 4.0 entity interface to 3.1 implementations. > The Slide client would have been a reason to port > the multipart entity, but those ideas are not going > to materialize anytime soon. >
Roland, My Evil(tm) plan is to try to contribute our multipart code to the mime4j project [1] provided they are willing to accept it and use their library as an optional dependency. As far as I am concerned it is of a rather low priority, though. Oleg [1] http://james.apache.org/mime4j/index.html > cheers, > Roland > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
