Hi Robert, I agree with the issue regarding classpath magic.
We'll make this explicit at the Restlet API level in v3.0 for connectors & convertors. https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/wiki/Road-map-of-version-3.0 Thanks, Jerome On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It seems that you are missing the > > org.restlet.ext.httpclient.jar in the classpath which > > will actually support the Apache HTTP client library. > > Thanks for the tip. I've updated the classpath. > I realize now that I didn't pay attention to the > lib/readme.txt which has the list of jars for > the Apache Httpclient extension. > > Incidentally lib/readme.txt doesn't mention that > the SSL library is needed by the Httpclient extension. > I found out by getting a ClassNotFoundException > for SslUtils (used by HttpClientHelper). I suppose > that's a bug. > > I have to say this business of changing the > connectors based on what's in the classpath is > really a disaster. Surely it would be better to > name the connector class somewhere. > > best > > Robert Dodier > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=3057410 > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=3099813