Hi, Any other thoughts on this ? Thanks On Wednesday, January 25, 2017, Antonio Gomes Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 to drop them > > Antonio > > 2017-01-25 18:28 GMT+01:00 Milamber <[email protected] <javascript:;>>: > > > > > HTML Link Parser element is probably rarely used and can be deprecated > imho > > > > HTTP URL Re-writing element can be useful for testing webapp without > > cookie manager but probably for a very old app of the time when the > cookie > > is appeared into the browsers... Probably it's can be deprecated too. > > > > > > > > On 25/01/2017 16:44, Philippe Mouawad wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> What do you think of deprecating HTML Link Parser and HTTP URL > Re-writing > >> Modifier? > >> > >> - I am not sure they are widely used > >> - Their design does not suit well for performance as : > >> - they require Previous Response, as a consequence, they do not > >> work > >> in Distributed mode > >> - they use a Dom parser + Tidy > >> - They are based on old HTML parser so I don't think they work > >> properly with new HTML 5 code > >> - They suffer from old bugs: > >> - https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17252 > >> - https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59943 => It was > >> not > >> reported on this element, but investigation showed it was > affected > >> > >> We could ask question on User mailing list and twitter to see if it's > >> used. > >> > >> > >> Regards > >> Philippe M. > >> @philmdot > >> > >> > > > -- Cordialement. Philippe Mouawad.
