Hi Gary,
I agree, constants like "Content-Type" along with quite a few others
are duplicated throughout the HttpClient code. Mostly this is because
no-one has spent the time to clean them up. As Eric mentioned
convenience methods have not been added to HttpMethod for compatibility
reasons.
Ugh - cross-posting. Seems like this question was meant for
httpclient-dev, so I've included that
I think the answer will come back from the regulars on the httpclient
dev list that the long term intent is to split the "request", and
"response" parts of the HttpMethod interface into distin