Re: [httpclient] Planning proposal

[Vincent Massol]

Title: RE: [httpclient] Planning proposal

----- Original Message ----- From: Sale, Doug To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 10:07 PM Subject: RE: [httpclient] Planning proposal when we first started using httpclient, we didn't intend to do any development on it.  however, as morgan, vincent, and others have discovered, there were many problems with it.  a couple i can think of off the top of my head were mishandling of domains in the cookie code and no content-length header sent to the server on a post. if httpclient is to be a commons component, the main focus should be a stable, reliable HTTP client.  this might require changes to the interface.  i agree, as does morgan, that api changes should be minimized.  *but*, if changes are necessary to facilitate this, then we should bite the bullet before releasing a 1.0 version of the code.   +1 and help Slide integrate these changes. -doug -Vincent