Bill Cutshall wrote: >I just discovered Http Client about a week ago. It's just what I need >for a project that I'm working on. I have a few questions, though: > >1. In message >http://www.mail-archive.com/commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg03518.html >Rodney intimates that that Http Client is close to being a 2.0 release. >How close is it to being officially released? > As close as Rodney, or another committer coming up with a release plan.
>2. Does Http Client support SOCKS proxies? Which of the system >properties (e.g., socks.proxyHost, socks.proxyPort) do I need to set for >both SOCKS and non-SOCKS proxies? > Don't know for sure....can check if you don't want to scour the source. >3. Part of my application needs to download binary files. I currently >do it in a loop "read"ing bytes from a BufferedInputStream chained to a >URLConnection's InputStream. I tried a similar approach with >HttpConnection's ResponseInputStream but the BufferedInputStream returns >eof (-1) on the first read. PostMethod.getResponseBody seems to work >fine but was slower than my current implementation. Can anyone give me >a good approach for binary file download? > I can't help on this one....anyone else? > >Thanks, > >Bill Cutshall >Carnegie Technology Education >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting http://adslgateway.multitask.com.au/developers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
