On Fri, 2023-03-10 at 21:23 +0530, Sandeep Kulkarni wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a migration guide for httpclient-win to httpclient5- > win. I > could not find one at > https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-5.2.x/migration-guide/index.html > > Also I am looking for any reason(s) for removal of > WindowsCredentialsProvider from httpclient5-win. Our code uses it and > we > are looking for alternatives when we move to v5. >
If you look at the source code of the WindowsCredentialsProvider you can see that it is basically useless. > Also why the call to setDefaultCredentialsProvider() was removed. I > have > got over the history of the file but could not find any reason > mentioned. Because one cannot set credentials for the WindowsNegotiateScheme. Those credentials would be meaningless. The scheme uses the actual credentials of the current system user. > > https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client/blob/4.5.x/httpclient-win/src/main/java/org/apache/http/impl/client/WinHttpClients.java#L77-L80 > > vs > > https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client/blob/master/httpclient5-win/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/impl/win/WinHttpClients.java#L66-L67 > > Regards, > Sandeep Kulkarni Please also note we are going to deprecate `httpclient5-win` and NTLM authentication scheme in the coming release (5.3) and remove them entirely in 6.0. There is presently no one willing to support this scheme. Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org
