Oliver Lockwood created VFS-767:
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Summary: Default HTTP VFS provider should support use of an
up-to-date version of Apache Commons HTTPClient
Key: VFS-767
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-767
Project: Commons VFS
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 2.6.0, 2.7.0
Reporter: Oliver Lockwood
As per the following line of code:
[https://github.com/apache/commons-vfs/blob/master/commons-vfs2/src/main/resources/org/apache/commons/vfs2/impl/providers.xml#L63]
the default HTTP VFS provider is only made available if the
{{org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient}} class is on the classpath.
This class belongs to the {{commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient}} JAR, which
since 2007 (almost 13 years ago!) was deprecated in favour of
{{org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient}}.
It would seem reasonable to add support for the newer Apache Commons HttpClient
library - and if desired, by creating a sibling implementation of
HttpFileProvider, it seems that this could easily be done without removing the
support for the legacy implementation.
I am happy to submit a PR to this effect if that would be considered.
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