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Changes since Release 2.0.1
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* ContentLengthInputStream no longer supports mark() & reset() methods.
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* 21329 - Added input buffering to improve performance
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Changes since Release 2.0
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* 30175 - Fixed StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in StatusLine
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* 29897 - Connection output buffer is set to a value not greater than 2k
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* 29549 - Split wire log into header and body parts
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* 29377 - Cookies with names containing blanks or starting with $ rejected by RFC2109
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* 29265 - HttpConnection.isOpen() no longer logs closed connections as stale.
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* 28728 - HttpUrl now accepts unescaped passwords
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* 28626 - Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in HttpStatus.getStatusText()
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* 27589 - Added MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager shutdown() and shutdownAll().
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* HttpMethod#recycle() has been deprecated.
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Changes since Release Candidate 3:
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* 26500 - Socket timeout is now correctly set on open connections
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* 26328 - Fixed getScheme() and getPort() returning wrong defaults for HttpsURL
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* 26139 - Fixed possible connection leak caused by lack of equals() and hashCode() on protocol
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* 26688 - Fixed the problem with HttpURL creating wrong authority String when user info is changed
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Release 2.0 Release Candidate 3
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Changes since Release Candidate 2:
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* HTTP status line parser changed to be more robust when dealing with non-compliant
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HTTP responses (leading blanks before 'HTTP' signature).
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* Fixed NPE in HttpMethodBase#responseBodyConsumed().
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* 24309 - Changed MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager to move to a single connection
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GC thread. Fixed memory and thread leaks.
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* 24327 - Fixed a bug where HttpClient did not reset the 'force-close connection'
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flag, when an HTTP method was automatically retried (for instance, when automatically
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handling an authentication challenge).
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* 24352 - Fixed the bug causing basic authentication via NLTM Proxy to fail.
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* 25370 - Connections are now closed and released automatically when an unrecoverable
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exception occurs in HttpMethodBase.processRequest().
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* 23866 - Fixed possible uncaught IllegalArgumentException in Cookie parsing.
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* 25264 - Added support for cookies with a domain attribute '.domain.com' issued by
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host 'domain.com' in the browser compatibility mode. Even though the cookie violates
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RFC 2109 it still gets accepted by mainstream browsers (tested with Mozilla Firebird and IE).
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* 24869 - Changed DigestScheme to only accept a challenge if all fields required
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by RFC 2617 are present.
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* 24671 - Added ISO-8859-1 support for digest authentication passwords, and basic authentication
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user names and passwords.
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* Javadoc enhancements.
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Release 2.0 Release Candidate 2
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Changes since Release Candidate 1:
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* 23708 - Added try/catch blocks around calls to System.getProperty().
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* 23431 - Added support for disabling transfer-encoding and content-type headers in
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* 23663 - Changed HttpMethodBase to release its HttpConnection when a recoverable
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* Javadoc enhancements.
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* 23284 - Fixed bug with URI.isIPv4address().
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* 22969 - PostMethod#setParameter fixed to correctly overwrite existing parameters.
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* 22970 - Fixed bug with PostMethod#removeParameter return value.
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* Improved compliance to RFC 2617
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* 22926 - Added support for digest auth MD5-sess.
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* 22655 - Added support for stale digest nonce values.
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* 22968 - HttpConnection.isResponseAvailable() made a little more robust, particularly when
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* 22941 - Switched the order in which socket streams are closed: output stream closed first,
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followed by input stream.
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* Added debugging for connection reclaiming.
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* Removed JCE initialization code specific to the Sun's implementation.
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* Fixed problem of Basic, Digest & NTLM authentication schemes under certain circumstances
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leaking passwords in clear text to the DEBUG log.
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* Fixed the problem with incorrect selection of the proxy authentication realm.
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* Changed URI.normalize() to ignore relative path normalization.
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Release 2.0 Release Candidate 1
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Changes since Release 2.0 Beta 2:
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* Option to disable 'stale' connection check that may lead to a slight
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performance improvement at the cost of reduced reliability
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* Improved debug logging in multi-threaded connection manager
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* URI.normalize() no longer has an effect on relative URIs.
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* 21532 - Removed use of sun.* class in URI.java
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* 20481 - Changed query param encoding to UTF-8.
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* 21378 - Multiple transfer encoding headers are now handled properly. Non chunked transfer
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encodings are now handled correctly.
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Changes since Release 2.0 Beta 1:
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* 20240 - Cookies with null path are no longer rejected in the
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browser compatibility mode.
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* 20481 - Query parameters set via HttpMethodBase.setQueryString(NameValuePair[])
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now correctly use 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' encoding.
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* 20481 - POST method correctly applies 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
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* 20569 - Duplicate connection headers are now handled.
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* 20646 - Fixed NTLM proxy authentication via SSL.
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* 20665 - Changed URI to correctly handle path resolution according to
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http://www.apache.org/~fielding/uri/rev-2002/issues.html. In
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particular dot-segments are removed when not necessary.
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* 20938 - Connections are now closed when the request is missing a content
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length and is not chunked.
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* 20942 - Requests with DIGEST authentication are now correctly handled
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* 21130 - DEFAULT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS and DEFAULT_MAX_TOTAL_CONNECTIONS are
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now public in MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager.
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* 21201 - URIs are now correctly rebuilt following a call to URI.normalize().
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* 21202 - WireLogInputStream.read(byte[]) now logs the correct number of bytes.
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* Fixed path parsing in RFC2109 cookie spec.
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* Fixed possible NPE when reading an empty response body.
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* The various to*Charset() methods of URIUtil have been deprecated.
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Changes since Release 2.0 Alpha 3:
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* Changed HttpConnection to use socket timeout instead of busy
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waiting while expecting input.
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* Added a getResponseContentLength() method to HttpMethod.
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* Changed HttpClient to accept correctly encoded URLs instead of
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attempting to encode them within HttpClient.
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* 'Expect: 100-continue' logic factored out into an abstract
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ExpectContinueMethod class
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* 'Expect: 100-Continue' handshake disabled per default, as it may not work
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properly with older HTTP/1.0 servers or proxies.
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* Reengineered authentication code. This includes a fix for
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HttpClient continually attempting to authenticate to digest realms and
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provides for better future extensibility.
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* Authenticator class deprecated
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* Improved user documentation and example code.
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* Added ability to differentiate between different hosts using the
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* Added support for specifying a virtual host name to use.
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* Fixed problem with half-closed connections causing a
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HttpRecoverableException to be thrown when HttpClient attempts to read
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* Improved reliability with the HEAD method and servers that
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incorrectly include a response body.
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* Improved support for connection keep-alive when communicating via a proxy
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* Added an override of HttpClient.executeMethod that lets the
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caller specify an HttpState object.
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* HttpConnectionManager is now a property of the HttpClient class,
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not of the HttpState class
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* Added ability to specify the local address that HttpClient should
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create connections from.
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Changes since Release 2.0 Alpha 2:
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* Abstract EntityEnclosingMethod class has been introduced to encapsulate
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common behaviour of all entity enclosing methods
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* "Expect: 100-continue" handshake support added for POST, PUT & multipart POST
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* Added support for chunked requests for POST and PUT.
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* Added support for 303 See Other redirections.
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* Changed input and output streams to use buffering to improve performance.
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* Improved handling of multivalue headers. Order is now preserved and
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convenience methods have been added to access each value.
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* In non-strict mode each cookie sent with the request is put on a separate
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request header. In strict mode all cookies are crammed into one request header,
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* ResponseInputStream class deprecated.
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* RequestOutputStream class deprecated.
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* Custom character set can be specified for all multipart classes.
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* Custom content type can be specified for FilePart derived multipart classes.
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* The useDisk methods in GetMethod class deprecated.
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Changes since Release 2.0 Alpha 1:
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* Digest authentication. NTLM authentication.
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* Added a StatusLine class to manage the status line of a
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* Added ability to cusomize SocketFactory for http and https.
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New Protocol class to allow for more protocols than just http/s.
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* Removed the HttpMultiClient, added multi-thread support to
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* Revamp the streaming policy. Added AutoCloseInputStream,
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ChunkedInputStream, ChunkedOutputStream, ContentLengthInputStream,
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ResponseConsumedWatcher
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* Commons Logging. Dependancy on the commons-logging.jar
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* Added httpclient.util package. Move Base64 and URIUtil classs
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* Added a HttpURLConnection wrapper. Allows for wrapping
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HttpClient into the java standard library. Partial support only.
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* Added httpclient.cookie package. Complete overhaul of cookie
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handling. Allows for user specified CookiePolicy and
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various cookie specification classes.
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* Removed previously deprecated Cookie.createCookieHeader(String,
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String,boolean,Cookie[]) method (port number is required for
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future compatibility).
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* Also removed Cookie.createCookieHeader(String,String,Cookie[])
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method, which should have been deprecated (port number is
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required for future compatibility)
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* Renamed HttpMethod.followRedirects to getFollowRedirects,
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for consistency (and made the corresponding change to
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