2 Jun 2003 00:44
[ANNOUNCE] Release of Commons HttpClient 2.0 Beta 1
Michael Becke <becke <at> u.washington.edu>
2003-06-01 22:44:37 GMT
2003-06-01 22:44:37 GMT
The Jakarta Commons HttpClient team is proud to announce the release of HttpClient 2.0 beta 1. This is the first feature complete release of HttpClient 2.0. The focus for the rest of the 2.0 development will be on bug fixes and documentation. Please visit the HttpClient website (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/) and download this latest release. The following changes have been made since Alpha 3: * Changed HttpConnection to use socket timeout instead of busy waiting while expecting input. * Added a getResponseContentLength() method to HttpMethod. * Changed HttpClient to accept correctly encoded URLs instead of attempting to encode them within HttpClient. * 'Expect: 100-continue' logic factored out into an abstract ExpectContinueMethod class * 'Expect: 100-Continue' handshake disabled per default, as it may not work properly with older HTTP/1.0 servers or proxies. * Reengineered authentication code. This includes a fix for HttpClient continually attempting to authenticate to digest realms and provides for better future extensibility. * Authenticator class deprecated(Continue reading)
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