Looking for reference documentation and examples for HttpClient 4.1.x

["Baker, Tristan" <Tr...@intuit.com>]

Hello,

I have scoured the internet looking for examples of how to use HttpClient 4.1.x. I've found the apache site (http://hc.apache.org/) with links to great examples of how use 4.2.x and 4.3.x, but I haven't found anything for 4.1.x.

I am developing an application running on JBoss EAP 6.1, which is bundled with RestEasy 2.3.6.Final, which in turn uses HttpClient 4.1.x.

I need to use the HttpClient libraries to make some outbound calls from my application and I'd like to use what's already available without upgrading, but I cannot find any documentation as clear as the documentation available for the later versions of HttpClient.  My specific use case is to configure RestEasy's HttpClient with custom socket timeout settings and a custom SSL Hostname Verifier that “Allows all hostnames”.  I’ve been able to find examples of this using the HttpClient 4.3 library, but since all I have available in my runtime environment is 4.1.x, none of the code compiles/runs.

Presumably, this documentation used to exist. Is there anywhere I can go to find similar examples for 4.1.x?  Here is the version I am using specifically:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
<version>4.1.2</version>
</dependency>

Thanks,
Tristan

Re: Looking for reference documentation and examples for HttpClient 4.1.x

[Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>]

On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 04:35 +0000, Baker, Tristan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have scoured the internet looking for examples of how to use HttpClient 4.1.x. I've found the apache site (http://hc.apache.org/) with links to great examples of how use 4.2.x and 4.3.x, but I haven't found anything for 4.1.x.
> 
> I am developing an application running on JBoss EAP 6.1, which is bundled with RestEasy 2.3.6.Final, which in turn uses HttpClient 4.1.x.
> 
> I need to use the HttpClient libraries to make some outbound calls from my application and I'd like to use what's already available without upgrading, but I cannot find any documentation as clear as the documentation available for the later versions of HttpClient.  My specific use case is to configure RestEasy's HttpClient with custom socket timeout settings and a custom SSL Hostname Verifier that “Allows all hostnames”.  I’ve been able to find examples of this using the HttpClient 4.3 library, but since all I have available in my runtime environment is 4.1.x, none of the code compiles/runs.
> 
> Presumably, this documentation used to exist. Is there anywhere I can go to find similar examples for 4.1.x?  Here is the version I am using specifically:
> 
> <dependency>
> <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
> <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
> <version>4.1.2</version>
> </dependency>
> 
> Thanks,
> Tristan

Tristan

4.1 examples can still be found in the source repository

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/branches/4.1.x/httpclient/src/examples/org/apache/http/examples/client/

Also, the tutorial sources

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/branches/4.1.x/src/docbkx/

Please note that you _should_ be able to upgrade HttpClient to a newer
stable release and still have RestEasy function as advertised. 

Oleg


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