HTTPSender and proxying [Jira ID AXIS-1349]

[Er...@inventivedesigners.com]

I'm running axis 1.2 beta and I noticed that it's request could not be 
proxied. Delving into the Axis code didn't get me very far :-) and some 
searching eventually led me to AXIS-1349 which exactly nails the problem. 
Since the bug is still open I guess it's not yet fixed. The workarround 
suggested in the bugreport is to use the commons http client. 

So my question is twofold : 

1) are there known issues or gotchas with switching to the commons http 
client ? In long forgotten times I have been toying with the beta (or 
something unstable because there was no release yet) of 2.0 and noticed 
quite a lot of problems for my simple needs. I wonder if the project has 
in the mean time matured.

2) Inquisitive as I am,  if this library is good, why is commons http 
client not the default ? Should HttpSender not be scrapped and just 
replaced ? If not, why ? I remember reading about having the two http 
implementations on the Axis site, in the early days before 1.0 was 
released. Now I can't even find a reference to it anymore .. or is it just 
because it's monday today ;-) ?

Kind Regards,
Erik

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