Commons HttpClient 3.0 approaching API freeze

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

Good ${time of the day}

Commons HttpClient is looking for some feedback on it's new 3.0 API.  As
a current user of HttpClient 2.0 we would like to hear what you have to
say. If you are interested please have a look at the new 3.0 API
<http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/3.0/index.html> and post
any questions/suggestions/criticisms to
<co...@jakarta.apache.org>

Noteworthy enhancements include:

* New preference architecture
* Granular non-standards configuration and tracking
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/3.0/preference-api.html

* Improved exception handling framework
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/3.0/exception-handling.html

* Plug-in mechanism for authentication modules
* Improved authentication framework
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/3.0/authentication.html

* Cookie specification plug-in mechanism
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/3.0/cookies.html

* Cross-site redirect support
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/3.0/redirects.html

We are looking at the API freeze in four to six week time. Your feedback
would be greatly appreciated

On behalf of the Jakarta HttpClient committers

  Oleg Kalnichevski