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James Abley commented on HTTPCLIENT-834:
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Oleg,
I hopefully described in the ticket why I think that this should work out of
the box without requiring changes for existing clients. That's why I'm trying
to get it working as part of the existing API.
If the functionality that I'm describing was done by adding a new
ContentEncodingHttpClient, then what do we think the impact of this is? Would
people need to alter their code (or maybe just Spring / Guice / etc
configuration)? I think that complicates the API surface area and increases the
semantic load on client developers. I don't think the clients should be
required to know these details of the RFC; application developers typically
want to write code at a different level and expect that the library abstraction
will do the right thing at its level.
I'm happy to write a version that subclasses as you suggest and see how it
feels from a client perspective. Should that be based on trunk or the existing
4.1 branch?
James
> Transparent Content Coding support
> ----------------------------------
>
> Key: HTTPCLIENT-834
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-834
> Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: HttpClient
> Affects Versions: 4.0 Beta 2
> Environment: Any
> Reporter: James Abley
> Fix For: 4.1.0
>
> Attachments: 834-2009-03-17.patch, 834-svn-754998.patch,
> disable-content-coding.patch
>
>
> I would like to see HttpClient features brought up to parity with other
> libraries, both in Java and other languages. c.f. Python's httplib2 (not yet
> in the standard library, but many would like to see it in there). That
> library transparently handles gzip and compress content codings.
> This issue is to capture possible solutions to providing this sort of innate
> functionality in HttpClient, so that users aren't required to know RFC2616
> intimately. The HttpClient library should do the right thing and use the
> network in the most efficient manner possible.
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