December 20, 2005
20 December 2005 - Jakarta Commons HttpClient 3.0 Released
The Jakarta Commons HttpClient project is pleased to announce the release of HttpClient 3.0. This release fixes all of the bugs discovered in RC4. As before, we strongly recommend that all users upgrade to HttpClient 3.0.
HttpClient 3.0 provides the following new features:
- Architecture
- New preference architecture
- Improved exception handling framework
- Granular non-standards configuration and tracking
- Improved HTTP Version configuration and tracking
- Support for streaming entities
- Support for tunneled HTTP proxies via the ProxyClient
- Ability to abort execution of HTTP methods
- Connection management
- Support for closing idle connections
- Support for JDK1.4 connect timeout through reflection
- Support for connection manager shutdown
- Authentication
- Improved authentication framework
- Plug-in mechanism for authentication modules
- Interactive authentication support
- Alternate authentication support
- Cookie management
- Cookie specification plug-in mechanism
- 'Ignore cookies' cookie policy
- Improved Netscape cookie support
- Redirects
- Cross-site redirect support
Downloads:
- Download - http://commons.apache.org/downloads/download_httpclient.cgi
- Release notes - http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/httpclient/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
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---- Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at December 20, 2005 06:26 PMhttp://www.apachenews.org/archives/000814.html
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