On Aug 23, 2009, at 8:35 PM, Morten wrote:
> --- Den søn 23/8/09 skrev Tatu Saloranta <tsaloranta_at_gmail.com>:
>
>> It would be great to add such support; I understand
>> resource
>> limitations of course.
>> But it's hard to get benefits of httpclient upgrade without
>> support
>> from frameworks... chicken and egg problem pretty much..
>
> Also, java's build in networking authentification has a major design
> flaw regarding global state and consequent lack of concurrency
> support. A design flaw which makes good support for apache
> httpclient essential for non-trivial apps.
>
Agreed. Apache 3.x already has that.
What i am searching for is a compelling reasons to spend resources on
implementing support for 4.x. I think one compelling reason may be
support for non-blocking IO.
Paul.