Re: Not giving ourselves enough credit on the home page

[Jeffrey Dever <js...@sympatico.ca>]

Hey Juergen,

Could you give us more of an update on what is happening with Slide and 
HttpClient?  I see that the original httpclient package has been removed 
from slide (yay!), but how is the uptake of commons HtpClient?  Anything 
standing in the way of using HttpClient for JSR147?

Jandalf.


Pill, Juergen wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Based on the Http-client library a WebDAV API was developed (Jakarta slide).
>There are plans to implement JSR 147 (a standard Delta-V API) based on this
>implementation (currently not finally confirmed).
>
>Best regards,
>
>Juergen
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: 	Mike Moran [mailto:mike_moran@mac.com] 
>Sent:	Thursday, January 30, 2003 18.54 PM
>To:	Commons HttpClient Project
>Subject:	Re: Not giving ourselves enough credit on the home page
>
>Eric Johnson wrote:
>[ ... ]
>
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>
>>Someone posted recently that HttpClient appears to be faster than the 
>>corresponding Sun solution. 
>>    
>>
>
>I don't think Sun's is the one to beat. The innovation.ch one is not 
>bad, though getting pretty old. You may want to do a comparison with 
>what the jakarta one can do based on:
>http://www.innovation.ch/java/HTTPClient/urlcon_vs_httpclient.html
>
>In particular, the inability to set a timeout on requests is a 
>show-stopper for any serious use of Sun's implementation.
>
>  
>