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Changes since release 4.0 Alpha 1
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* [HTTPCLIENT-666] Replaced HttpState with CredentialsProvier and CookieStore interfaces
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Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
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* [HTTPCORE-100] revised HttpContext hierarchy
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Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>
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* [HTTPCLIENT-618] eliminate class HostConfiguration
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Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>
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* [HTTPCLIENT-672] re-sync with API changes in core alpha6-SNAPSHOT
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Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>
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Release 4.0 Alpha 1
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HttpClient 4.0 represents a complete, ground-up redesign and almost a complete
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rewrite of the HttpClient 3.x codeline. This release finally addresses several
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design flaws that existed since the 1.0 release and could not be fixed without
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a major code overhaul and breaking API compatibility.
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The HttpClient 4.0 API is still very experimental and is bound to change
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during the course of the ALPHA development phase. Several important features
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have not yet been ported to the new API.
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Architectural changes
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* Redesign of the HttpClient internals addressing all known
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major architectural shortcomings of the 3.x codeline
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* Cleaner, more flexible and expressive API
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* Better performance and smaller memory footprint due to a more
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efficient HTTP transport based on HttpCore. HttpClient 4.0 is
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expected to be 10% to 25% faster than HttpClient 3.x codeline
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* More modular structure
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* Pluggable redirect and authentication handlers
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* Support for protocol incerceptors
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* Improved connection management
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* Improved support for sending requests via a proxy or a chain of
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proxies
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* Improved handling redirects of entity enclosing requests
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* More flexible SSL context customization
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* Reduced intermediate garbage in the process of
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generating HTTP requests and parsing HTTP responses
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HttpClient 3.x features that have NOT yet been ported
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* NTLM authentication scheme
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* RFC2965 cookie policy (Cookie2)
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* Support for multipart MIME coded entities
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The following is a list of contributions tracked in JIRA.
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Note that this is not a complete list of contributions or changes.
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Since the API was redesigned completely, tracking everything outside
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of the source code repository would have been too burdensome.
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* [HTTPCLIENT-655] User-Agent string no longer violates RFC
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Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
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* [HTTPCLIENT-541] Virtual host API redesign
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Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
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* [HTTPCLIENT-614] Allow for different strategies when checking
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CN of x509 certificates
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Contributed by Julius Davies <juliusdavies at gmail.com>
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* [HTTPCLIENT-136] Fixed inadequate proxy support
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Long standing architectural problem. Issue opened on 19/Dec/2002.
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Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
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* [HTTPCLIENT-63] Support for pluggable redirect and authentication handlers
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Long standing architectural problem. Issue opened on 15/Jul/2002.
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Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
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* [HTTPCLIENT-245] Fixed redirect handling. HttpClient can now automatically
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handle redirects of entity enclosing requests.
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Long standing architectural problem. Issue opened on 14/Jul/2003.
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Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
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* [HTTPCLIENT-613] HTTPS connections now verify CN of x509 certificates
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Contributed by Julius Davies <juliusdavies at gmail.com>
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* [HTTPCLIENT-497] Wire/header logger names consistent with class loggers
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Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
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* [HTTPCLIENT-484] AuthSSLProtocolSocketFactory in the main distribution
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Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
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* [HTTPCLIENT-589] Do not consume the remaining response content if
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the connection is to be closed
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Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>
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* [HTTPCLIENT-475] Support for unconnected sockets. HTTP requests can now be
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aborted while network socket is still being connected.
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Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>
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