Could just use the apache http client library (i.e. make it a dependency), which seems to support most of the extensions to the HTTP protocols. No point in duplicating code unnecessarily.
Sandro Martini wrote: > Hi to all, > I've just started to make some test on the question "Add support for > digest authentication to web queries" ( > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-43 ), and after some search > I've seen that Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Client (and many other > projects) have their implementation of this, already working, tested, > etc. > > So, to avoid reinvent the wheel, would it be possible to start from > one of these implementation (like that of the latest Tomcat 6), and > make the necessary modifications to adapt to Pivot ? > Having the same Apache license is think this is possible, but there is > a right way to do this (referring the project in the source, and maybe > also in other places) ? > > Then, I'd like to test it accessing protected resources from Tomcat, > ands maybe also on other common Servers, like Apache HTTPD, and if i > find time also on Jetty and Grizzly. > But for the Server side code of these tests, I'm thinking to provide > only one, and describe what to do on others ... > > What do you think ? > > Thanks, > Sandro >
