On Tue, 2026-06-02 at 15:33 -0400, Gary Gregory wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 3:18 PM Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Folks
> > 
> > I think it is time to officially declare HttpClient 4.x at the end
> > of
> > life and discontinue its support.
> > 
> > Does anyone see any good reason to keep it supported?
> 
> I'm OK to keep supporting it, as it still lives deep in some of my
> transitive dependencies.
> 

Would you be willing to be the release manager for the 4.5.x branch?


> I would even consider adding a toggle to all versions that says:
> "Even
> though I've added a header manually, I don't want it magically
> forwarded on any redirect-type of operation. Maybe there's 2 APIs:
> add
> short vs. long lived header.
> 

I doubt we need such a toggle or two types of APIs given we have
request / exec interceptors. 

> This comes up so often as a security issue, that I wish we could
> force
> users to call a "I know what I'm doing" API because adding a plain
> old
> header seems like normal behavior for these folks.
> 

The problem is our poor documentation and overabundance of "security
professionals".

Oleg


> 2c,
> Gary
> 
> > 
> > Oleg
> > 
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