HttpClient, clones and future

[Vincent Massol]

Title: RE: [Vote] Vote for a new Cactus committer

Hi,   I was wondering what the plan for the future of HttpClient ? Do you want to make it *THE* client side Http implementation that everyone would use ? I am just asking because there are few serious contenders : HTTPClient (http://www.innovation.ch/java/HTTPClient/) is one, and Jigsaw is even a better one (latest release 2.2.0 all contains a client webDAV implementation, see http://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/RelNotes.html#2.2.0).   Apache/Jakarta beeing quite famous, I can certainly see HttpClient becoming the de facto standard in this area. However, there is quite a lot amount of work .... compared to Jigsaw or even HTTPClient ...   I guess, the real questions are : - Is someone really committed to making HttpClient the _reference_ in it's domain ? (meaning this person is/will be working actively on it) - Has it been put in jakarta commons simply because it felt like it was a good place to put it (being a generic component) and it was put there in the hope that the community will improve on it (instead of keeping it private within Slide) ? - As there exists a few existing implementation which are more advanced (Jigsaw, HTTPClient, ...) do we want to continue implementing HttpClient or simply rely on these other implementations (the only big issue I can see is the license issue - HTTPClient is LGPL and Jigsaw is W3C (is it compatible with Apache?).   Thanks -Vincent   ----- Original Message ----- From: Vincent Massol To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 1:12 PM Subject: HttpClient and HttpMethodBase.setParameter() Hi,   I'd like to know what it means to use setParameter() for a Get Method ? Does it automatically adds it to the query string ? What happens if other parameters are defined in the query string, do they get appended to these ?   Unless there is something I don't understand I think the setParameter() method should be removed from the HttpClient interface and only appear in PostMethod   What do you think ? Thanks   -Vincent