Maybe we need them for kerberos? I'm totally fine getting rid of kerberos support from Solr core some day, but it might not be very easy to refactor it into a package.
On Sat, 10 Oct, 2020, 10:26 pm David Smiley, <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > I think that historically, we are good at adding code but not good at > removing code. We add new ways to do things but keep the old. Removal is > more work often forgotten but doing nothing implicitly adds technical debt > henceforth. > > With that segue... given that our latest SolrClient implementations are > based on Jetty HttpClient (to support Http2 but should support 1.1?), do we > need the original Apache HttpComponents/HttpClient as well? This is an > honest question... maybe there are subtle reasons they are needed and I > think it would be good as a project that we are clear on them. > > ~ David Smiley > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley >
