| Release 4.1 |
| ------------------- |
| |
| The HttpClient 4.1 release builds upon the stable foundation laid by HttpClient 4.0 and adds several |
| functional improvements and popular features. |
| |
| * Response caching conditionally compliant with HTTP/1.1 specification (full compliance with |
| MUST requirements, partial compliance with SHOULD requirements) |
| |
| * Full support for NTLMv1, NTLMv2, and NTLM2 Session authentication. The NTLM protocol code |
| was kindly contributed by the Lucene Connector Framework project. |
| |
| * Support for SPNEGO/Kerberos authentication. |
| |
| * Persistence of authentication data between request executions within the same execution context. |
| |
| * Support for preemptive authentication for BASIC and DIGEST schemes. |
| |
| * Support for transparent content encoding. Please note transparent content encoding is not |
| enabled per default in order to avoid conflicts with already existing custom content encoding |
| solutions. |
| |
| * Mechanism to bypass the standard certificate trust verification (useful when dealing with |
| self-signed certificates). |
| |
| * Simplified configuration for connection managers. |
| |
| * Transparent support for host multihoming. |
| |
| IMPORTANT: please note that the HttpClient 3.x branch is now officially END OF LIFE and is no longer |
| maintained and supported by the Apache HttpComponents project. |
| |
| Changelog |
| ------------------- |
| * The public API for the caching module had a minor change between 4.1-beta and 4.1-GA to the |
| HttpCacheEntry class - the deprecated public Set<String> getVariantURIs() method and constructor |
| public HttpCacheEntry(Date requestDate, Date responseDate, |
| StatusLine statusLine, Header[] responseHeaders, |
| Resource resource, Set<String> variants) |
| were both removed. This will not affect you unless you are implementing new storage backends |
| that use the deprecated code and/or are implementing custom serializers for cache entries. |
| |
| * Changed Browser-Compatibility and Best-Match cookie policies to emulate the behaviour of FireFox |
| more closely when parsing Netscape style cookies. Comma will no longer be treated as a header |
| element separator if Set-Cookie does not contain a Version attribute mandated by the |
| RFC2109 / RFC 2965 cookie specifications. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-1036] StringBody has incorrect default for characterset. (Default changed |
| to US-ASCII) |
| Contributed by Sebastian Bazley <sebb at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-975] Support stale-if-error and stale-while-revalidate extension directive (RFC5861). |
| Contributed by Mohammed Azeem Uddin <mohammedazeem_uddin at comcast.com>, |
| Michajlo Matijkiw <michajlo_matijkiw at comcast.com>, and |
| Matthew Hawthorne <matthew_hawthorne at comcast.com>. |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-1033] HttpRoute.equals(Object o) is quite inefficient, as it does not take full |
| advantage of shortcut logic. |
| Contributed by Sebastian Bazley <sebb at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-1030] Implement "ignoreCookies" CookieSpec |
| Contributed by Sebastian Bazley <sebb at apache.org> |
| |
| Release 4.1 BETA1 |
| ------------------- |
| |
| HttpClient 4.1 BETA1 finalizes the 4.1 API and brings a number of major improvements to the HTTP |
| caching module. This release also adds full support for NTLMv1, NTLMv2, and NTLM2 Session |
| authentication. The NTLM protocol code was kindly contributed by the Lucene Connector Framework |
| project. |
| |
| Changelog |
| ------------------- |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-1015] Support only-if-cached directive. |
| Contributed by Michajlo Matijkiw <michajlo_matijkiw at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-990] Allow heuristic freshness caching. |
| Contributed by Michajlo Matijkiw <michajlo_matijkiw at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-919] Support for NTLMv1, NTLMv2, and NTLM2 Session authentication. |
| Contributed by Karl Wright <karl.wright at nokia.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-1008] Send all variants' ETags on "variant miss". |
| Contributed by Michajlo Matijkiw <michajlo_matijkiw at comcast.com> and |
| Mohammed Azeem Uddin <mohammedazeem_uddin at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-1011] Handling of IOExceptions thrown by cache components. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-1003] Handle conditional requests in cache. |
| Contributed by Michajlo Matijkiw <michajlo_matijkiw at comcast.com> and |
| Mohammed Azeem Uddin <mohammedazeem_uddin at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-1002] Stale connection check fails if wire logging is on. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-1000] Maximum connection lifetimes settings for ThreadSafeClientConnManager. |
| Contributed by Michajlo Matijkiw <michajlo_matijkiw at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-960] HttpMultipart doesn't generate Content-Type header for binary parts in |
| BROWSER_COMPATIBLE mode. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-998] Cache should use both Last-Modified and ETag for validations when available. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-997] Cache module should handle out-of-order validations properly and unconditionally |
| refresh. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-994] Cache does not allow client to override origin-specified freshness using |
| max-stale. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-995] Cache returns cached responses even if validators not consistent with all |
| conditional headers. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-977] Memcached implementation for HttpCache. |
| Contributed by Mohammed Azeem Uddin <mohammedazeem_uddin at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-992] cache should not generate stale responses to requests explicitly requesting |
| first-hand or fresh ones. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-991] cache module produces improperly formatted Warning header when revalidation |
| fails. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-989] DefaultHttpRequestRetryHandler no longer retries non-idempotent http methods |
| if NoHttpResponseException is thrown. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-988] Cache module should strip 'Content-Encoding: identity' from responses |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-987] cache module does not recognize equivalent URIs. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-986] cache module does not completely handle upstream Warning headers correctly |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-985] cache module should populate Via header to capture upstream and downstream protocols |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-984] Additional conditional compliance tests for the caching module for |
| Content-Encoding, Content-Location, Date, Expires, Server, Transfer-Encoding, and Vary headers. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-978] HTTP cache update exception handling |
| Contributed by Michajlo Matijkiw <michajlo_matijkiw at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-981] CachingHttpClient returns a 411 respones when executing a POST (HttpPost) |
| request. |
| Contributed by Joe Campbell <joseph.r.campbell at gmail.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-980] CachingHttpClient returns a 503 response when the backend HttpClient produces |
| an IOException. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-978] Ehcache based HTTP cache implementation |
| Contributed by Michajlo Matijkiw <michajlo_matijkiw at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-967] support for non-shared (private) caches |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-969] BasicCookieStore#getCookies() to return a copy of Cookie list |
| Contributed by David Smiley <dsmiley at mitre.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-965] Fixed problem with cache not honoring must-revalidate or |
| proxy-revalidate Cache-Control directives. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-964] 'no-cache' directives with field names are no longer transmitted |
| downstream. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-963] Fixed handling of 'Cache-Control: no-store' on requests. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-962] Fixed handling of Authorization headers in shared cache mode. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-961] Not all applicable URIs are invalidated on PUT/POST/DELETEs |
| that pass through client cache. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-958] Client cache no longer allows incomplete responses to be |
| passed on to the client. |
| Contributed by Jonathan Moore <jonathan_moore at comcast.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-951] Non-repeatable entity enclosing requests are not correctly |
| retried when 'expect-continue' handshake is active. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-948] In rare circumstances the idle connection handling code |
| can leave closed connections in a inconsistent state. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-953] IllegalStateException thrown by RouteSpecificPool. |
| Contributed by Guillaume <gueugaie at gmail.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-952] Trust store parameter is ignored by SSLSocketFactory |
| (affects version 4.1-alpha2 only) |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-937] CacheEntry made immutable; now uses immutable HttpEntity |
| to store cached content. |
| Contributed by David Mays <david_mays at comcast.com> and |
| Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| Release 4.1 ALPHA2 |
| ------------------- |
| |
| HttpClient 4.1 ALPHA2 fixes a number of non-severe bugs discovered since |
| the last release and introduces support for two frequently requested features: |
| |
| * HTTP/1.1 response caching |
| |
| * transparent support for host multihoming |
| |
| * a mechanism to bypass the standard certificate trust verification |
| (useful when dealing with self-signed certificates) |
| |
| Compatibility notes |
| ------------------- |
| (1) Please note the HTTP caching module is still considered experimental and |
| its API may change significantly in the future releases. |
| |
| (2) This release eliminates Mime4J as a dependency for the HttpMime module. |
| HttpMime is no longer binary compatible with the previous releases. |
| Full API and binary compatibility between minor versions of HttpMime will be |
| maintained as of 4.1 GA release. |
| |
| Changelog |
| ------------------- |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-936] Fixed bug causing NPE or an infinite loop in |
| the authentication code in case of a SPNEGO authentication failure. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-427] HTTP caching support |
| Contributed by Joe Campbell, David Cleaver, David Mays, Jon Moore, Brad Spenla |
| |
| * Dropped dependency on Mime4j for HttpMime. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * Extended SSLSocketFactory with a mechanism to bypass the standard certificate |
| trust verification (primarily to simplify dealing with self-signed |
| certificates) |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-898] Improved support for host multihoming |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-916] UsernamePasswordCredentials, NTUserPrincipal, |
| BasicClientCookie, BasicClientCookie2 and BasicCookieStore made Serializable. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-914] Upgraded Commons Codec dependency to version 1.4 |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-903] Use ConcurrentHashMap instead of [Linked]HashMap for |
| thread-safety. Improve performance of AuthSchemeRegistry, CookieSpecRegistry |
| and SchemeRegistry classes. |
| Contributed by Sebastian Bazley <sebb at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-902] HttpRequestRetryHandler not called on I/O exceptions |
| thrown when opening a new connection. |
| Contributed by Olivier Lamy <olamy at apache.org> and |
| Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| Release 4.1 ALPHA1 |
| ------------------- |
| |
| HttpClient 4.1 ALPHA1 builds on the stable 4.0 release and adds several |
| functionality improvements and new features. |
| |
| * Simplified configuration of connection managers. |
| |
| * Persistence of authentication data between request executions within |
| the same execution context. |
| |
| * Support for SPNEGO/Kerberos authentication scheme |
| |
| * Support for transparent content encoding. Please note transparent content |
| encoding is not enabled per default in order to avoid conflicts with |
| already existing custom content encoding solutions. |
| |
| * 5 to 10% performance increase due to elimination of unnecessary Log object |
| lookups by short-lived components. |
| |
| Please note all methods and classes added in this release and marked as |
| 4.1 are API unstable and can change in the future 4.1 ALPHA releases. |
| |
| Changelog |
| ------------------- |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-889] 'expect: continue' handshake disabled per default. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-862] Extended client's redirect handling interface to allow |
| control of the content of the redirect. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-872] HttpClient can now persist authentication data between request |
| executions as long as they share the same execution context. It has also become |
| much easier to make HttpClient authenticate preemptively by pre-populating |
| authentication data cache. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-883] SO_TIMEOUT is not reset on persistent (re-used) connections. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-832] Distinguish cookie format errors from violations of |
| restrictions imposed by a cookie specification. In the latter case |
| CookieRestrictionViolationException will be thrown. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-523] Support for SPNEGO authentication scheme. |
| Contributed by Matthew Stevenson <mavricknzwork at yahoo.com> |
| |
| * Simplified configuration of connection managers. Total connection maximum |
| and maximum connection per route limits can be set using methods of |
| the class instead of HTTP parameters. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * Added parameters to define the order of preference for supported auth |
| schemes for target host and proxy authentication. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-875] DefaultClientConnectionOperator#openConnection doesn't |
| update the connection state if the connection socket changed after |
| the call to SocketFactory#connectSocket(). |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-834] Transparent content encoding support. |
| Contributed by James Abley <james.abley at gmail.com> |
| |
| Release 4.0.1 |
| ------------------- |
| |
| This is a bug fix release that addresses a number of issues discovered since |
| the previous stable release. None of the fixed bugs is considered critical. |
| Most notably this release eliminates eliminates dependency on JCIP annotations. |
| |
| This release is also expected to improve performance by 5 to 10% due to |
| elimination of unnecessary Log object lookups by short-lived components. |
| |
| Changelog |
| ------------------- |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-895] Eliminated Log lookups in short lived objects impairing |
| performance. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-885] URLEncodedUtils now correctly parses form-url-encoded |
| entities that specify a charset. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-884] UrlEncodedFormEntity now sets charset on the Content-Type |
| header. |
| Contributed by Jared Jacobs <jmjacobs at cs.stanford.edu> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-883] SO_TIMEOUT is not reset on persistent (re-used) connections. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-882] Auth state is now correctly updated if a successful NTLM |
| authentication results in a redirect. This is a minor bug as HttpClient |
| manages to recover from the problem automatically. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-881] Fixed race condition in AbstractClientConnAdapter that makes |
| it possible for an aborted connection to be returned to the pool. |
| Contributed by Tim Boemker <tboemker at elynx.com> and |
| Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-866] Removed dependency on jcip-annotations.jar. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| and Sebastian Bazley <sebb at apache.org> |
| |
| |
| Release 4.0 |
| ------------------- |
| |
| HttpClient 4.0 represents a complete, ground-up redesign and almost a complete |
| rewrite of the HttpClient 3.x codeline. This release finally addresses several |
| design flaws that existed since the 1.0 release and could not be fixed without |
| a major code overhaul and breaking API compatibility. |
| |
| |
| Architectural changes |
| --------------------- |
| |
| * Redesign of the HttpClient internals addressing all known major |
| architectural shortcomings of the 3.x codeline. |
| |
| * Cleaner, more flexible and expressive API. |
| |
| * More modular structure. |
| |
| * Better performance and smaller memory footprint due to a more efficient HTTP |
| transport based on HttpCore. |
| |
| * Implementation of cross-cutting HTTP protocol aspects through protocol |
| interceptors. |
| |
| * Improved connection management, better handling of persistent connections, |
| support for stateful connections |
| |
| * Pluggable redirect and authentication handlers. |
| |
| * Improved support for sending requests via a proxy or a chain of proxies |
| |
| * More flexible SSL context customization |
| |
| * Reduced intermediate garbage in the process of generating HTTP requests |
| and parsing HTTP responses |
| |
| |
| Important notes |
| ------------------- |
| |
| * Future releases of HttpMime module may be binary incompatible with this |
| release due to possible API changes in Apache Mime4J. Apache Mime4J is |
| still being actively developed and its API is considered unstable. |
| |
| * HttpClient 4.0 is not fully binary compatible with 4.0 BETA1 release. |
| Some protected variables in connection management class have been |
| made final in order to help ensure their thread safety: |
| |
| org.apache.http.conn.BasicEofSensorWatcher#attemptReuse |
| org.apache.http.conn.BasicEofSensorWatcher#managedConn |
| org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator#schemeRegistry |
| org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpRoutePlanner#schemeRegistry |
| org.apache.http.impl.conn.ProxySelectorRoutePlanner#schemeRegistry |
| org.apache.http.impl.conn.SingleClientConnManager#alwaysShutDown |
| org.apache.http.impl.conn.SingleClientConnManager#connOperator |
| org.apache.http.impl.conn.SingleClientConnManager#schemeRegistry |
| org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager#connOperator |
| org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager#schemeRegistry |
| |
| |
| Bug fixes since 4.0 BETA2 release |
| ------------------- |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-861] URIUtils#resolve is now compatible with all examples given |
| in RFC 3986. |
| Contributed by Johannes Koch <johannes.koch at fit.fraunhofer.de> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-860] HttpClient no longer converts redirects of PUT/POST to GET |
| for status codes 301, 302, 307, as required by the HTTP spec. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-859] CookieIdentityComparator now takes path attribute into |
| consideration when comparing cookies. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * HttpClient will no longer send expired cookies back to the origin server. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-856] Proxy NTLM authentication no longer fails on a redirect to |
| a different host. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-841] Removed automatic connection release using garbage collection |
| due to a memory leak. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-853] Fixed bug causing invalid cookie origin port to be selected |
| when the target is accessed on the default port and the connection is |
| established via a proxy. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-852] Fixed bug causing automatically retried redirects fail with |
| CircularRedirectException. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * Fixed problem with the default HTTP response parser failing to handle garbage |
| preceding a valid HTTP response. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * NonRepeatableRequestExceptions now include the cause that the original |
| request failed. |
| Contributed by Sam Berlin <sberlin at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-837] Fixed problem with the wire log skipping zero byte values |
| if read one byte at a time. |
| Contributed by Kirill Safonov <ksafonov at swiftteams.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-823] 'http.conn-manager.max-total' parameter can be adjusted |
| dynamically. However, the size of existing connection pools per route, |
| once allocated, will not be adjusted. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-822] Default socket factories to rethrow SocketTimeoutException |
| as ConnectTimeoutException in case of connect failure due to a time out. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-813] Fixed default port resolution. Invalid ports no longer |
| get replaced with the default port value. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| Release 4.0 beta 2 |
| ------------------- |
| |
| BETA2 is a maintenance release, which addresses a number of issues |
| discovered since the previous release. |
| |
| The only significant new feature is an addition of an OSGi compliant |
| bundle combining HttpClient and HttpMime jars. |
| |
| All upstream projects are strongly encouraged to upgrade. |
| |
| * Fixed NPE in DefaultRequestDirector thrown when retrying a failed |
| request over a proxied connection. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-803] Fixed bug in SSL host verifier implementations |
| causing the SSL certificate to be rejected as invalid if the connection |
| is established using an IP address. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-806] DefaultHttpMethodRetryHandler will no longer retry |
| on ConnectExceptions. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * DigestScheme can use an arbitrary digest algorithm requested by the |
| target server (such as SHA) as long as this algorithm is supported by |
| the Java runtime. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * Fixed parsing and validation of RFC2109 compliant Set-Cookie headers |
| by the Best-Match cookie spec. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * Fixed bug that can cause a managed connection to be returned from the |
| pool in an inconsistent state. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| |
| 4.0 Beta 1 |
| ------------------- |
| |
| BETA1 release brings yet another round of API enhancements and |
| improvements in the area of connection management. Among the most notable |
| ones is the capability to handle stateful connections such as persistent |
| NTLM connections and private key authenticated SSL connections. |
| |
| This is the first API stable release of HttpClient 4.0. All further |
| releases in the 4.0 code line will maintain API compatibility with this |
| release. |
| |
| There has been a number of important bug fixes since ALPHA4. All upstream |
| projects are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release. |
| |
| Please note HttpClient currently provides only limited support for NTLM |
| authentication. For details please see NTLM_SUPPORT.txt. |
| |
| ------------------- |
| |
| Changelog: |
| ------------------- |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-790] Protocol interceptors are now correctly invoked when |
| executing CONNECT methods. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-668] Do not use static loggers. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-781] Respect Keep-Alive header's timeout value. |
| Contributed by Sam Berlin <sberlin at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-779] Top-level classes (HttpClient, and HttpGet, HttpPut |
| and similar HttpMethods) throw fewer checked exceptions. |
| Contributed by Sam Berlin <sberlin at apache.org> |
| |
| * HttpClient will throw an exception if an attempt is made to retry |
| a request with a non-repeatable request entity. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * Fixed request re-generation logic when retrying a failed request. |
| Auto-generated headers will no accumulate. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-424] Preemptive authentication no longer limited to BASIC |
| scheme only. HttpClient can be customized to authenticate preemptively |
| with DIGEST scheme. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-670] Pluggable hostname resolver. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-719] Clone support for HTTP request and cookie objects. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-776] Fixed concurrency issues with AbstractPoolEntry. |
| Contributed by Sam Berlin <sberlin at gmail.com> |
| |
| * Resolved a long standing problem with HttpClient not taking into account |
| the user context when pooling / re-using connections. HttpClient now |
| correctly handles stateful / user specific connections such as persistent |
| NTLM connections and SSL connections with client side authentication. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-773] Improved handling of the 'expires' attribute by the |
| 'Best Match' cookie spec. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * Partial NTLM support (requires an external NTLM engine). For details see |
| NTLM_SUPPORT.txt |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * Redesigned local execution context management. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| -------------------------------------- |
| |
| Release 4.0 Alpha 4 |
| ------------------- |
| |
| ALPHA4 marks the completion of the overhaul of the connection management |
| code in HttpClient. All known shortcomings of the old HttpClient 3.x |
| connection management API have been addressed. |
| |
| NTLM authentication remains the only missing major feature in the new |
| codeline that prevents us from moving awards the API freeze. |
| |
| There has been a number of important bug fixes since ALPHA3. All upstream |
| projects are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release. |
| |
| ------------------- |
| |
| HttpClient 3.x features that have NOT yet been ported: |
| ------------------- |
| |
| * NTLM authentication scheme |
| |
| ------------------- |
| |
| Changelog: |
| ------------------- |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-765] String.toLowerCase() / toUpperCase() should specify |
| Locale.ENGLISH |
| Contributed by Sebastian Bazley <sebb at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-769] Do not pool connection marked non-reusable. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-763] Fixed problem with AbstractClientConnAdapter#abortConnection() |
| not releasing the connection if called from the main execution thread while |
| there is no blocking I/O operation. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-652] Added optional state attribute to managed client connections. |
| This enables connection managers to correctly handle stateful connections. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-673] Revised max connections per route configuration |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-753] Class Scheme and related classes moved to a separate package |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-757] Improved request wrapping in the DefaultClientRequestDirector. |
| This also fixed the problem with the default proxy set at the client level |
| having no effect. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-734] Request abort will unblock the thread waiting for a connection |
| Contributed by Sam Berlin <sberlin at gmail.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-759] Ensure release of connections back to the connection manager |
| on exceptions. |
| Contributed by Sam Berlin <sberlin at gmail.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-758] Fixed the use of generics in AbstractHttpClient |
| #removeRequestInterceptorByClass and #removeResponseInterceptorByClass |
| Contributed by Johannes Koch <johannes.koch at fit.fraunhofer.de> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-749] HttpParams beans |
| Contributed by Stojce Dimski <sdmiski at yahoo.it> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-755] Workaround for known bugs in java.net.URI.resolve() |
| Bug ID: 4708535 |
| Contributed by Johannes Koch <johannes.koch at fit.fraunhofer.de> |
| |
| -------------------------------------- |
| |
| Release 4.0 Alpha 3 |
| ------------------- |
| |
| ALPHA3 release brings another round of API refinements and improvements in |
| functionality. As of this release HttpClient requires Java 5 compatible |
| runtime environment and takes full advantage of generics and new concurrency |
| primitives. |
| |
| This release also introduces new default cookie policy that selects a cookie |
| specification depending on the format of cookies sent by the target host. |
| It is no longer necessary to know beforehand what kind of HTTP cookie support |
| the target host provides. HttpClient is now able to pick up either a lenient |
| or a strict cookie policy depending on the compliance level of the target host. |
| |
| Another notable improvement is a completely reworked support for multipart |
| entities based on Apache mime4j library. |
| |
| ------------------- |
| |
| HttpClient 3.x features that have NOT yet been ported: |
| ------------------- |
| |
| * NTLM authentication scheme |
| |
| ------------------- |
| |
| Changelog: |
| ------------------- |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-742] common interface for HttpRoute and RouteTracker |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-741] Fixed concurrency issues in AbstractClientConnAdapter. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-726] testcase for spurious wakeups in ThreadSafeClientConnManager |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-643] Automatic connect fail-over for multi-home remote servers. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-735] unsetting of DEFAULT_PROXY and FORCED_ROUTE in hierarchies |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-723] route planner based on java.net.ProxySelector |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-740] don't start connection GC thread in pool constructor |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-736] route planners use SchemeRegistry instead of ConnManager |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-730] Fixed rewriting of URIs containing escaped characters |
| Contributed by Sam Berlin <sberlin at gmail.com> and |
| Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-667] Added 'Meta' cookie policy that selects a cookie |
| specification depending on the format of the cookie(s). |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-729] Move HttpRoute and related classes to routing package. |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-725] Use TimeUnit arguments for timeouts in connection manager. |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-677] Connection manager no longer uses Thread.interrupt(). |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-716] Allow application-defined routes. |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-712] Improve HttpRoute API |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-711] Bad route computed for redirected requests |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-715] Remove RoutedRequest from API |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-705] Fixed incorrect handling of URIs with null path component. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-688] HttpOptions#getAllowedMethods can now handle multiple |
| Allow headers. |
| Contributed by Andrea Selva <selva.andre at gmail.com> |
| |
| -------------------------------------- |
| |
| Release 4.0 Alpha 2 |
| ------------------- |
| |
| ALPHA2 release is another milestone in the redesign of HttpClient. It includes |
| a number of improvements since ALPHA1, among which are improved connection |
| pooling, support for proxy chains, redesigned HTTP state and authentication |
| credentials management API, improved RFC 2965 cookie specification. |
| |
| ------------------- |
| |
| HttpClient 3.x features that have NOT yet been ported |
| ------------------- |
| * NTLM authentication scheme |
| |
| * Support for multipart MIME coded entities |
| |
| ------------------- |
| |
| Changelog |
| ------------------- |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-698] Resolve non-absolute redirect URIs relative to |
| the request URI |
| Contributed by Johannes Koch <johannes.koch at fit.fraunhofer.de> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-697] Throw a more intelligible exception when connection |
| to a remote host cannot be established. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-689] Caching of SimpleDateFormat in DateUtils |
| Contributed by Daniel Müller <strider at digitalstrider.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-689] stackable parameters in AbstractHttpClient |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-477] Use distinct instances of the authentication handler |
| interface for authentication with target and proxy hosts |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-690] ManagedClientConnection provides access to SSLSession |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-692] ClientConnectionManager throws InterruptedException |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCORE-116] moved parameter names to interfaces |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-649] support for proxy chains in HttpConn |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-636] refactor ThreadSafeClientConnManager in separate package |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-669] new HttpRoutePlanner interface and implementation |
| Contributed by Andrea Selva <selva.andre at gmail.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-653] detached connection wrapper no longer prevents |
| garbage collection of ThreadSafeClientConnManager |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-674] use org.apache.http.util.VersionInfo instead of a local one |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-666] Replaced HttpState with CredentialsProvier and CookieStore interfaces |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCORE-100] revised HttpContext hierarchy |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-618] eliminate class HostConfiguration |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-672] re-sync with API changes in core alpha6-SNAPSHOT |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| -------------------------------------- |
| |
| Release 4.0 Alpha 1 |
| ------------------- |
| |
| HttpClient 4.0 represents a complete, ground-up redesign and almost a complete |
| rewrite of the HttpClient 3.x codeline. This release finally addresses several |
| design flaws that existed since the 1.0 release and could not be fixed without |
| a major code overhaul and breaking API compatibility. |
| |
| The HttpClient 4.0 API is still very experimental and is bound to change |
| during the course of the ALPHA development phase. Several important features |
| have not yet been ported to the new API. |
| |
| Architectural changes |
| --------------------- |
| |
| * Redesign of the HttpClient internals addressing all known |
| major architectural shortcomings of the 3.x codeline |
| |
| * Cleaner, more flexible and expressive API |
| |
| * Better performance and smaller memory footprint due to a more |
| efficient HTTP transport based on HttpCore. HttpClient 4.0 is |
| expected to be 10% to 25% faster than HttpClient 3.x codeline |
| |
| * More modular structure |
| |
| * Pluggable redirect and authentication handlers |
| |
| * Support for protocol incerceptors |
| |
| * Improved connection management |
| |
| * Improved support for sending requests via a proxy or a chain of |
| proxies |
| |
| * Improved handling redirects of entity enclosing requests |
| |
| * More flexible SSL context customization |
| |
| * Reduced intermediate garbage in the process of |
| generating HTTP requests and parsing HTTP responses |
| |
| ------------------- |
| |
| HttpClient 3.x features that have NOT yet been ported |
| ------------------- |
| * NTLM authentication scheme |
| |
| * RFC2965 cookie policy (Cookie2) |
| |
| * Support for multipart MIME coded entities |
| |
| ------------------- |
| |
| Changelog |
| ------------------- |
| |
| The following is a list of contributions tracked in JIRA. |
| Note that this is not a complete list of contributions or changes. |
| Since the API was redesigned completely, tracking everything outside |
| of the source code repository would have been too burdensome. |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-655] User-Agent string no longer violates RFC |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-541] Virtual host API redesign |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-614] Allow for different strategies when checking |
| CN of x509 certificates |
| Contributed by Julius Davies <juliusdavies at gmail.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-136] Fixed inadequate proxy support |
| Long standing architectural problem. Issue opened on 19/Dec/2002. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-63] Support for pluggable redirect and authentication handlers |
| Long standing architectural problem. Issue opened on 15/Jul/2002. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-245] Fixed redirect handling. HttpClient can now automatically |
| handle redirects of entity enclosing requests. |
| Long standing architectural problem. Issue opened on 14/Jul/2003. |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-613] HTTPS connections now verify CN of x509 certificates |
| Contributed by Julius Davies <juliusdavies at gmail.com> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-497] Wire/header logger names consistent with class loggers |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-484] AuthSSLProtocolSocketFactory in the main distribution |
| Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-589] Do not consume the remaining response content if |
| the connection is to be closed |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |
| * [HTTPCLIENT-475] Support for unconnected sockets. HTTP requests can now be |
| aborted while network socket is still being connected. |
| Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org> |
| |