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Karl Wright commented on CONNECTORS-4: -------------------------------------- HttpClient team wants us to upgrade to their latest release, which is 4.1. They claim this fixes 2 of the 3 patches I submitted. For the record, the patches were submitted under tickets: HTTPCLIENT-917 HTTPCLIENT-918 HTTPCLIENT-919 The one they rejected outright was ticket HTTPCLIENT-919, for reasons that they believed it violated Apache policy as pertaining to potential IP infringement, specifically because NTLM is a proprietary authentication and authorization scheme. There was no indication that they were aware of any specific patent issues, but that apparently is not the key point. If this reasoning stands, I intend to create two additional tickets - one for moving to HttpClient 4.1, and one for modifying the build scripts to obtain an appropriate NTLM implementation from some non-Apache open-source project. > Submit other package changes supplied with software grant upstream to the > proper projects > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CONNECTORS-4 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-4 > Project: Lucene Connector Framework > Issue Type: Task > Reporter: Karl Wright > Assignee: Karl Wright > > The code granted by MetaCarta depends on certain specific feature additions > and changes MetaCarta made to some packages it depends upon, specifically > jCIFS, commons-httpclient, and xerces-j. These changes should be percolated > accordingly. They can be found in the tarball under the directory > "upstream-diffs". -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.