Release 3.0.1
-------------------
Changes since Release 3.0:
* 38636 - Calling HttpState.clearCookies() is now safe from a different thread.
Contributed by Peter Dolberg <observewisdom at yahoo.com>
* 38385 - Fixed NPE when creating URI from scheme specific part with null fragment
Contributed by Michele Vivoda <vivodamichele at hotmail.com>
* 38043 - Digest URI changed to include query parameters
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 38004 - Fixed bug causing cyclic redirects when virtual host is set
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 38139 - Calling deprecated MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager.setMaxTotalConnections(int)
had no effect
Contributed by Ortwin Glueck <oglueck at apache.org>
* 37988 - Fixed bug in URI#toString() causing user name / password to
stripped from the resultant String
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
Release 3.0
-------------------
Changes since Release Candidate 4:
* 37526 - Fixed incorrect processing of HTTP parameters with an
empty name
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 37256 - Fixed bug causing MultipartRequestEntity to miscalculate the
total content length if any of the parts returns a negative
content length value
Contributed by Loïc Péron <loic.peron at bigfoot.com>
* 37197 - Preemptive auth flag no longer disregarded when tunneling
SSL connections via a proxy
Contributed by wynand <wolman at gmail.com>
* 37154 - UsernamePasswordCredentials.equals(null) no longer causes NPE
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 37129 - HttpConnection changed to use a protocol socket factory registered
for 'http' protocol instead of DefaultProtocolSocketFactory when
connecting to a proxy to establish a secure tunnel
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
Release 3.0 Release Candidate 4
-------------------
Changes since Release Candidate 3:
* 36882 - Max connections per host setting did not work
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 36791 - Fixed HttpConnection#isOpen flag concurrency problem
Contributed by Jean-Marie White <jmwhite5 at yahoo.com>
* 36339 - Request is no longer retried if preemptive authentication fails
and Basic is the only supported authentication scheme advertised
by the target server
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 36372 - nonce-count in digest auth should not be quoted
Contributed by Ortwin Glueck <oglueck at apache.org>
* 36369 - Custom Proxy-Connection header no longer gets overwritten
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 36595 - Do not attempt to retry aborted methods
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 36140 - ParameterParser changed to correctly differentiate between empty and
null (no value) parameters
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 35085 - HTTP 204 "NO CONTENT" response no longer results in dropped
connection.
Contributed by Ian Bray <Ian.Bray at logicacmg.com>
* 35944 - Connection always gets released back to the pool even if an unchecked
exception is thrown in HttpMethod#releaseConnection method.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 35642 - Do not retry if host is unreachable. This ensures a connection timeout
will be obeyed.
Contributed by Ortwin Glueck <oglueck at apache.org>
* 35815 - SimpleHttpConnectionManager now logs warnings when it detects it is
being used incorrectly.
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
Release 3.0 Release Candidate 3
-------------------
Changes since Release Candidate 2:
* 35365 - Added #hashCode and #equals methods for Credentials implementations
Contributed by Eric Johnson <eric at tibco.com>
* 35322 - Stale connection check now correctly works with IBM JSSE/JRE 1.4.x
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 35225 - Fixed a major problem with the browser compatibility policy leaking cookies
to 3rd party domains (.mydomain.com -> .notmydomain.com)
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 35328 - DateUtil#formatDate changed to US locale instead of system default
Contributed by Yannick <yannick at meudal.net>
* 34960 - DigestScheme changed to take into account charset attribute when available
(Known to be used by Microsoft implementation of the Digest auth scheme)
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 35148 - HttpClient now correctly handles relative URIs beginning with a colon.
Contributed by Gordon Mohr <gojomo at archive.org>
* 34961 - HttpClient now correctly handles escaped characters in HTTP header elements
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 34780 - HttpClient now always overrides the host of HostConfiguration if an absolute
request URI is given
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 34740 - Connection with the proxy is not reopened if an proxy auth failure occurs
while SSL tunnel is being established
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 34721 - Virtual host setting is now correctly applied when parsing and matching
cookies
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 34583 - DateUtil.formatDate() changed to use GMT instead of the default timezone
Contributed by Fred Bierhaus <fred.bierhaus at vodafone.com>
* 34459 - Always use the chunk encoding when request content length cannot be
determined (is negative)
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 34427 - Fixed the bug causing an IllegalStateException in AuthState
triggered by the combination of preemptive proxy authentication
and a cross-site redirect
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
Release 3.0 Release Candidate 2
-------------------
Changes since Release Candidate 1:
* 34255 - Preemptive authentication no longer causes NTLM auth scheme to fail
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* 33720 - Fixed the problem with HttpMethod#getURI applying URL escaped encoding to
already encoded URIs
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 34262 - Fixed broken handling of responses that may not include an entity body
(status code 204, 304)
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* ----- - Fixed broken InputStreamRequestEntity#isRepeatable method
Contributed by Matthew-J Watson <matthew-j.watson at db.com>
* 33677 - Fixed the bug preventing the HTTP retry handler from handling
ConnectionExceptions
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 33988 - All classes overriding Object#hashCode & Object#equals methods have been reviewed
regarding their hashCode/equals contract compliance
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 33947 - Exception in HttpConnection because of unchecked buffer size
Contributed by Ortwin Glueck <oglueck at apache.org>
* 33856 - Fixed the problem with the credential-charset parameter not having an effect on
the encoding of the NTLM credentials
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 33541 - Fixed the problem with host level parameters having no effect on HTTP CONNECT
methods
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 33468 - HttpClient no longer flushes the request line and request headers prior to
writing the request body if the 'expect: continue' handshake is not used
Contributed by Peter Tolmachov <peter.tolmachov at agfa.com>
Release 3.0 Release Candidate 1
-------------------
Changes since Beta 1:
* 32833 - Cookie with domain .mydomain.com were not sent to host mydomain.com
in the browser compatibility mode
Contributed by David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer at kilzer.net>
* 33021 - Fixed the bug causing the circular redirect if different query parameters
are used in the redirect location.
Contributed by Ilya Kharmatsky <ilyak at mainsoft.com>
* 32955 - Fixed the bug effectively disabling the stale connection check
Contributed by Oliver Koell <oko at newbase.de>
* 32835 - The two digit year greater than 20 no longer causes the cookie expiry date
to be interpreted as a date between 1920 and 1999
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 32607 - Fixed the problem with ReflectionSocketFactory ignoring the local address of
HostConfiguration
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 32409 - HttpState now has new methods for clearing all cookies and credentials.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 32558 - Fixed retry count bug in DefaultMethodRetryHandler
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 32333 - Connection is now closed upon "Connection: close" request,
if the server does not include an explicit connection
directive in the response.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 32765 - Fixed NullPointerException in HostConfiguration.setHost(Sting)
Contributed by Stuart Herring <apache at stuartherring.com>
* 32742 - Fixed the problem with SO_TIMEOUT parameter having no effect
on the method level.
Contributed by Ilya Kharmatsky <ilyak at mainsoft.com>
Release 3.0 Beta 1
-------------------
Changes since Alpha 2:
* 31929 - Added support for formatting dates. Deprecated DateParser in
favor of DateUtil.
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* ----- - HostConfiguration.isHostSet() and Hostconfiguration.isProxySet() have been
deprecated.
* 31981 - Fixed the bug causing an infinite loop in HttpMethodDirector
when using SSL + proxy + host auth + keep alive off
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 31607 - Catch SocketTimeoutException not InterruptedIOException when running
in JRE >=1.4
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 31471 - HostConfiguration refactored
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* ----- - ContentLengthInputStream no longer supports mark() & reset() methods. Old
broken implementation removed.
Contributed by Eric Johnson <eric at tibco.com>
Release 3.0 Alpha 2
-------------------
Changes since Alpha 1:
* 10793 - Configurable default headers
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 30652 - Configurable SO_LINGER
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 31163 - CookieSpec classes made stateful
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 21329 - Added input buffering to improve performance
Contributed by Bjarne Rasmussen <brasmussen at novell.com>
* 29897 - Connection output buffer is set to a value not greater than 2k
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 29636 - MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager now support configuring the maximum
number of connections on a per host basis.
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* 29874 - Deprecated old HTTP method retry handler based on HttpRecoverableException
and replaced it with a new one that acts upon plain IOExceptions
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 29883 - Fixed handling of multi-byte characters in the StringRequestEntity class
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 29383 - Added method to delete closed connections from the connection pool
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* 29549 - Split wire log into header and body parts
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* 29540 - Fixed credentials scope matching algorithm in HttpState#matchCredentials.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 29439 - Cleaner interface to define authentication scope, handle credentials in HttpState.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 29377 - Cookies with names containing blanks or starting with $ rejected by RFC2109 spec only.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
Release 3.0 Alpha 1
-------------------
New features:
-------------
(1) 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
(2) Connection management
* Support for closing idle connections
* Support for JDK1.4 connect timeout through reflection
* Support for connection manager shutdown
(3) Authentication
* Improved authentication framework
* Plug-in mechanism for authentication modules
* Interactive authentication support
* Alternate authentication support
(4) Cookie management
* Cookie specification plug-in mechanism
* 'Ignore cookies' cookie policy
* Improved Netscape cookie support
(5) Redirects
* Cross-site redirect support
Changes on the CVS trunk:
-------------------------
* 29265 - HttpConnection.isOpen() no longer logs closed connections as stale.
* 28645 - Moved/added content type handling to the RequestEntity.
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>, Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 20288 - Added ability to abort execution of HTTP methods
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 24154 - Socket timeout can be specified at the connection manager, connection or method level
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 16124 - HTTP protocol version can be specified at the client, host or method level
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 28728 - HttpUrl now accepts unescaped passwords
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* 28626 - Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in HttpStatus.getStatusText()
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 26070 - Added support for streaming entities
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* 28566 - CookieSpec interface extended to expose path & domain matching methods; browser compatibility domain
matching algorithm modified to mimic the (mis-)behavior of common browsers
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 25372 - Added support for closing idle connections
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>, Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 28322 - Redesign of connect timeout logic; Added support for JDK1.4 connect timeout through reflection
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 28151 - Added stand-alone support for tunneled HTTP proxies via the ProxyClient
Contributed by Michael Sample <m_sample at canada.com>, Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* 21216 - Fixed the problem of redirect 302 to the same URL causing max redirects exception: circular redirect
check added; the circular redirect check is on per default and in lenient mode, is off in strict mode
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 27589 - Added MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager shutdown() and shutdownAll()
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* 25529 - Redesign of HTTP authentication framework
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* Better implementation of ChunkedOutputStream: writes are buffered to an internal buffer (2048 default size);
chunks are guaranteed to be at least as large as the buffer size (except for the last chunk)
Contributed by Mohammad Rezaei <mohammad.rezaei at gs.com>, Goldman, Sachs & Co
* HttpMethod#getResponseBody & HttpMethod#getResponseBodyAsString changed to propagate IOException to the caller
instead of logging and discarding it
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 10794 - Added interactive authentication support; Authentication realm key is now comprised of host name, port,
realm name and authentication type
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 15297 - Added ability to perform alternate authentication
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 16881 - HttpClient made dependent on Commons-codec to perform Base64 and URL encoding/decoding
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>, Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 24560 - Fixed the problem of HttpClient looping endlessly while trying to retrieve status line
Contributed by Christian Kohlschuetter <ck at rrzn.uni-hannover.de>
* 24671 - Added support for configuring charsets in credentials and HTTP headers
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* Plug-in mechanism for authentication modules
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* Added infrastructure to create test cases that involve use of a proxy
Contributed by Ortwin Glueck <oglueck at apache.org>
* UserNamePasswordCredentials & NTCredentials made immutable
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 24869 - DigestScheme now only accepts a challenge if all fields required by RFC 2617 are present
Contributed by Ortwin Glueck <oglueck at apache.org>
* New framework for server based tests
Contributed by Christian Kohlschuetter <ck at rrzn.uni-hannover.de>, Ortwin Glueck <oglueck at apache.org>
* Socket input stream now wrapped with a wrapper class that re-throws certain type of generic IO exceptions as HttpClient
specific exceptions. Improved handling of 'used' connections (known to have successfully completed an I/O operation).
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 24012 - Added IgnoreCookiesSpec.
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* 24018 - Cookie and Authorization headers can now be set manually.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 21151 - Cookie specification plug-in mechanism
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* Reworked DigestScheme: the qop Parameter is parsed correctly and not just ignored; missing qop is handled correctly
Contributed by Ortwin Glueck <oglueck at apache.org>
* 10790 - Implemented granular non-standards configuration and tracking.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>, Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>,
Roland Weber <rolweber at de.ibm.com>, Ortwin Glueck <oglueck at apache.org>,
Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton at ephox.com>
* 15435 - Implemented new preference architecture.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>, Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>,
Roland Weber <rolweber at de.ibm.com>, Ortwin Glueck <oglueck at apache.org>,
Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton at ephox.com>
* Deprecated the use of system properties: 'httpclient.useragent',
'httpclient.authentication.preemptive'.
* Refactored NameValuePair#equals method.
Contributed by Ortwin Glueck <oglueck at apache.org>
* 16729 - Refactored retry/redirect/authentication logic.
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* Added support for disabling HttpConnection.isStale()
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* 10791 - Improved HTTP Version configuration and tracking.
Contributed Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>, Laura Werner <laura at lwerner.org>,
Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* 21880 - Content-Length & Transfer-Encoding request headers formerly set by abstract
HttpMethodBase class are handled by entity enclosing methods.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 17947 - HttpMethod#setURI method added.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 19618 - URI constructors refactored.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 11240 - Fixed the problem of cookies with ',' in the value string not parsed correctly in some cases
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* 21323 - Support for large(long) content added
Contributed by Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* 19868 - Exception handling framework reworked.
Contributed by Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton at ephox.com>, Laura Werner <laura at lwerner.org>,
Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>, Michael Becke <mbecke at apache.org>
* 21210 - Header parser completely rewritten.
Improved handling of Netscape draft compatible cookies
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
Release 2.0.1
-------------------
Changes since Release 2.0
* 30175 - Fixed StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in StatusLine
* 29897 - Connection output buffer is set to a value not greater than 2k
* 29549 - Split wire log into header and body parts
* 29377 - Cookies with names containing blanks or starting with $ rejected by RFC2109
spec only.
* 29265 - HttpConnection.isOpen() no longer logs closed connections as stale.
* 28728 - HttpUrl now accepts unescaped passwords
* 28626 - Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in HttpStatus.getStatusText()
* 27589 - Added MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager shutdown() and shutdownAll().
* HttpMethod#recycle() has been deprecated.
Release 2.0
-------------------
Changes since Release Candidate 3:
* 26500 - Socket timeout is now correctly set on open connections
* 26328 - Fixed getScheme() and getPort() returning wrong defaults for HttpsURL
* 26139 - Fixed possible connection leak caused by lack of equals() and hashCode() on protocol
socket factories
* 26688 - Fixed the problem with HttpURL creating wrong authority String when user info is changed
Release 2.0 Release Candidate 3
-------------------
Changes since Release Candidate 2:
* HTTP status line parser changed to be more robust when dealing with non-compliant
HTTP responses (leading blanks before 'HTTP' signature).
* Fixed NPE in HttpMethodBase#responseBodyConsumed().
* 24309 - Changed MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager to move to a single connection
GC thread. Fixed memory and thread leaks.
* 24327 - Fixed a bug where HttpClient did not reset the 'force-close connection'
flag, when an HTTP method was automatically retried (for instance, when automatically
handling an authentication challenge).
* 24352 - Fixed the bug causing basic authentication via NLTM Proxy to fail.
* 25370 - Connections are now closed and released automatically when an unrecoverable
exception occurs in HttpMethodBase.processRequest().
* 23866 - Fixed possible uncaught IllegalArgumentException in Cookie parsing.
* 25264 - Added support for cookies with a domain attribute '.domain.com' issued by
host 'domain.com' in the browser compatibility mode. Even though the cookie violates
RFC 2109 it still gets accepted by mainstream browsers (tested with Mozilla Firebird and IE).
* 24869 - Changed DigestScheme to only accept a challenge if all fields required
by RFC 2617 are present.
* 24671 - Added ISO-8859-1 support for digest authentication passwords, and basic authentication
user names and passwords.
* Javadoc enhancements.
Release 2.0 Release Candidate 2
-------------------
Changes since Release Candidate 1:
* Javadoc enhancements.
* 23284 - Fixed bug with URI.isIPv4address().
* 22969 - PostMethod#setParameter fixed to correctly overwrite existing parameters.
* 22970 - Fixed bug with PostMethod#removeParameter return value.
* Improved compliance to RFC 2617
* Added support for digest auth MD5-sess.
* 22655 - Added support for stale digest nonce values.
* 22968 - HttpConnection.isResponseAvailable() made a little more robust, particularly when
used by HeadMethod.
* 22941 - Switched the order in which socket streams are closed: output stream closed first,
followed by input stream.
* Added debugging for connection reclaiming.
* Removed JCE initialization code specific to the Sun's implementation.
* Fixed problem of Basic, Digest & NTLM authentication schemes under certain circumstances
leaking passwords in clear text to the DEBUG log.
* Fixed the problem with incorrect selection of the proxy authentication realm.
* Changed URI.normalize() to ignore relative path normalization.
Release 2.0 Release Candidate 1
-------------------
Changes since Release 2.0 Beta 2:
* Option to disable 'stale' connection check that may lead to a slight
performance improvement at the cost of reduced reliability
* Improved debug logging in multi-threaded connection manager
* URI.normalize() no longer has an effect on relative URIs.
* 21532 - Removed use of sun.* class in URI.java
* 20481 - Changed query param encoding to UTF-8.
* 21378 - Multiple transfer encoding headers are now handled properly. Non chunked transfer
encodings are now handled correctly.
Release 2.0 Beta 2
-------------------
Changes since Release 2.0 Beta 1:
* 20240 - Cookies with null path are no longer rejected in the
browser compatibility mode.
* 20481 - Query parameters set via HttpMethodBase.setQueryString(NameValuePair[])
now correctly use 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' encoding.
* 20481 - POST method correctly applies 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
encoding.
* 20569 - Duplicate connection headers are now handled.
* 20646 - Fixed NTLM proxy authentication via SSL.
* 20665 - Changed URI to correctly handle path resolution according to
http://www.apache.org/~fielding/uri/rev-2002/issues.html. In
particular dot-segments are removed when not necessary.
* 20938 - Connections are now closed when the request is missing a content
length and is not chunked.
* 20942 - Requests with DIGEST authentication are now correctly handled
when redirected.
* 21130 - DEFAULT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS and DEFAULT_MAX_TOTAL_CONNECTIONS are
now public in MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager.
* 21201 - URIs are now correctly rebuilt following a call to URI.normalize().
* 21202 - WireLogInputStream.read(byte[]) now logs the correct number of bytes.
* Fixed path parsing in RFC2109 cookie spec.
* Fixed possible NPE when reading an empty response body.
* The various to*Charset() methods of URIUtil have been deprecated.
Release 2.0 Beta 1
-------------------
Changes since Release 2.0 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
* Improved user documentation and example code.
* Added ability to differentiate between different hosts using the
same realm names.
* Added support for specifying a virtual host name to use.
* Fixed problem with half-closed connections causing a
HttpRecoverableException to be thrown when HttpClient attempts to read
from a socket.
* Improved reliability with the HEAD method and servers that
incorrectly include a response body.
* Improved support for connection keep-alive when communicating via a proxy
* Added an override of HttpClient.executeMethod that lets the
caller specify an HttpState object.
* HttpConnectionManager is now a property of the HttpClient class,
not of the HttpState class
* Added ability to specify the local address that HttpClient should
create connections from.
Release 2.0 Alpha 3
-------------------
Changes since Release 2.0 Alpha 2:
* Abstract EntityEnclosingMethod class has been introduced to encapsulate
common behaviour of all entity enclosing methods
* "Expect: 100-continue" handshake support added for POST, PUT & multipart POST
* Added support for chunked requests for POST and PUT.
* Added support for 303 See Other redirections.
* Changed input and output streams to use buffering to improve performance.
* Improved handling of multivalue headers. Order is now preserved and
convenience methods have been added to access each value.
* In non-strict mode each cookie sent with the request is put on a separate
request header. In strict mode all cookies are crammed into one request header,
as before.
* ResponseInputStream class deprecated.
* RequestOutputStream class deprecated.
* Custom character set can be specified for all multipart classes.
* Custom content type can be specified for FilePart derived multipart classes.
* The useDisk methods in GetMethod class deprecated.
Release 2.0 Alpha 2
------------------
Changes since Release 2.0 Alpha 1:
* Mavenized builds.
* Digest authentication. NTLM authentication.
* Multipart post.
* Added a StatusLine class to manage the status line of a
http response.
* Added ability to cusomize SocketFactory for http and https.
New Protocol class to allow for more protocols than just http/s.
* Removed the HttpMultiClient, added multi-thread support to
HttpClient.
* Revamp the streaming policy. Added AutoCloseInputStream,
ChunkedInputStream, ChunkedOutputStream, ContentLengthInputStream,
ResponseConsumedWatcher
* Commons Logging. Dependancy on the commons-logging.jar
* Added httpclient.util package. Move Base64 and URIUtil classs
into util.
* Added a HttpURLConnection wrapper. Allows for wrapping
HttpClient into the java standard library. Partial support only.
* Added httpclient.cookie package. Complete overhaul of cookie
handling. Allows for user specified CookiePolicy and
various cookie specification classes.
* Removed previously deprecated Cookie.createCookieHeader(String,
String,boolean,Cookie[]) method (port number is required for
future compatibility).
* Also removed Cookie.createCookieHeader(String,String,Cookie[])
method, which should have been deprecated (port number is
required for future compatibility)
* Renamed HttpMethod.followRedirects to getFollowRedirects,
for consistency (and made the corresponding change to
HttpMethodBase)
