I do remember about it. In fact, in my initial post you have been
personally mentioned to be among those impacted most by the suggested
patch ;-) Had not the patch been turned down, I was going to approach
you for suggestions on HttpClient improvement.
I guess we will have to refactor
To implement this feature (full redirects), there are really only three
general choices that make sense:
1) augment HttpMethodBase.execute()
Pros: current functionality is maintained
Cons: makes complex code more complex,
2) have two stage redirection done partially in HttpMethodBase and part