Changes since Release 2.0.2 * 32333 - Connection is now closed upon "Connection: close" request, if the server does not include an explicit connection directive in the response * 34721 - Virtual host setting is now correctly applied when parsing and matching cookies * 34262 - Fixed broken handling of responses that may not include an entity body (status code 204, 304) * 33988 - All classes overriding Object#hashCode & Object#equals methods have been reviewed regarding their hashCode/equals contract compliance * 33947 - Exception in HttpConnection because of unchecked buffer size Release 2.0.2 ------------------- Changes since Release 2.0.1 * ContentLengthInputStream no longer supports mark() & reset() methods. * 21329 - Added input buffering to improve performance Release 2.0.1 ------------------- Changes since Release 2.0 * 30175 - Fixed StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in StatusLine * 29897 - Connection output buffer is set to a value not greater than 2k * 29549 - Split wire log into header and body parts * 29377 - Cookies with names containing blanks or starting with $ rejected by RFC2109 spec only. * 29265 - HttpConnection.isOpen() no longer logs closed connections as stale. * 28728 - HttpUrl now accepts unescaped passwords * 28626 - Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in HttpStatus.getStatusText() * 27589 - Added MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager shutdown() and shutdownAll(). * HttpMethod#recycle() has been deprecated. Release 2.0 ------------------- Changes since Release Candidate 3: * 26500 - Socket timeout is now correctly set on open connections * 26328 - Fixed getScheme() and getPort() returning wrong defaults for HttpsURL * 26139 - Fixed possible connection leak caused by lack of equals() and hashCode() on protocol socket factories * 26688 - Fixed the problem with HttpURL creating wrong authority String when user info is changed Release 2.0 Release Candidate 3 ------------------- Changes since Release Candidate 2: * HTTP status line parser changed to be more robust when dealing with non-compliant HTTP responses (leading blanks before 'HTTP' signature). * Fixed NPE in HttpMethodBase#responseBodyConsumed(). * 24309 - Changed MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager to move to a single connection GC thread. Fixed memory and thread leaks. * 24327 - Fixed a bug where HttpClient did not reset the 'force-close connection' flag, when an HTTP method was automatically retried (for instance, when automatically handling an authentication challenge). * 24352 - Fixed the bug causing basic authentication via NLTM Proxy to fail. * 25370 - Connections are now closed and released automatically when an unrecoverable exception occurs in HttpMethodBase.processRequest(). * 23866 - Fixed possible uncaught IllegalArgumentException in Cookie parsing. * 25264 - Added support for cookies with a domain attribute '.domain.com' issued by host 'domain.com' in the browser compatibility mode. Even though the cookie violates RFC 2109 it still gets accepted by mainstream browsers (tested with Mozilla Firebird and IE). * 24869 - Changed DigestScheme to only accept a challenge if all fields required by RFC 2617 are present. * 24671 - Added ISO-8859-1 support for digest authentication passwords, and basic authentication user names and passwords. * Javadoc enhancements. Release 2.0 Release Candidate 2 ------------------- Changes since Release Candidate 1: * 23708 - Added try/catch blocks around calls to System.getProperty(). * 23431 - Added support for disabling transfer-encoding and content-type headers in multi-part posts. * 23663 - Changed HttpMethodBase to release its HttpConnection when a recoverable exception occurs. * Javadoc enhancements. * 23284 - Fixed bug with URI.isIPv4address(). * 22969 - PostMethod#setParameter fixed to correctly overwrite existing parameters. * 22970 - Fixed bug with PostMethod#removeParameter return value. * Improved compliance to RFC 2617 * 22926 - Added support for digest auth MD5-sess. * 22655 - Added support for stale digest nonce values. * 22968 - HttpConnection.isResponseAvailable() made a little more robust, particularly when used by HeadMethod. * 22941 - Switched the order in which socket streams are closed: output stream closed first, followed by input stream. * Added debugging for connection reclaiming. * Removed JCE initialization code specific to the Sun's implementation. * Fixed problem of Basic, Digest & NTLM authentication schemes under certain circumstances leaking passwords in clear text to the DEBUG log. * Fixed the problem with incorrect selection of the proxy authentication realm. * Changed URI.normalize() to ignore relative path normalization. Release 2.0 Release Candidate 1 ------------------- Changes since Release 2.0 Beta 2: * Option to disable 'stale' connection check that may lead to a slight performance improvement at the cost of reduced reliability * Improved debug logging in multi-threaded connection manager * URI.normalize() no longer has an effect on relative URIs. * 21532 - Removed use of sun.* class in URI.java * 20481 - Changed query param encoding to UTF-8. * 21378 - Multiple transfer encoding headers are now handled properly. Non chunked transfer encodings are now handled correctly. Release 2.0 Beta 2 ------------------- Changes since Release 2.0 Beta 1: * 20240 - Cookies with null path are no longer rejected in the browser compatibility mode. * 20481 - Query parameters set via HttpMethodBase.setQueryString(NameValuePair[]) now correctly use 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' encoding. * 20481 - POST method correctly applies 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' encoding. * 20569 - Duplicate connection headers are now handled. * 20646 - Fixed NTLM proxy authentication via SSL. * 20665 - Changed URI to correctly handle path resolution according to http://www.apache.org/~fielding/uri/rev-2002/issues.html. In particular dot-segments are removed when not necessary. * 20938 - Connections are now closed when the request is missing a content length and is not chunked. * 20942 - Requests with DIGEST authentication are now correctly handled when redirected. * 21130 - DEFAULT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS and DEFAULT_MAX_TOTAL_CONNECTIONS are now public in MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager. * 21201 - URIs are now correctly rebuilt following a call to URI.normalize(). * 21202 - WireLogInputStream.read(byte[]) now logs the correct number of bytes. * Fixed path parsing in RFC2109 cookie spec. * Fixed possible NPE when reading an empty response body. * The various to*Charset() methods of URIUtil have been deprecated. Release 2.0 Beta 1 ------------------- Changes since Release 2.0 Alpha 3: * Changed HttpConnection to use socket timeout instead of busy waiting while expecting input. * Added a getResponseContentLength() method to HttpMethod. * Changed HttpClient to accept correctly encoded URLs instead of attempting to encode them within HttpClient. * 'Expect: 100-continue' logic factored out into an abstract ExpectContinueMethod class * 'Expect: 100-Continue' handshake disabled per default, as it may not work properly with older HTTP/1.0 servers or proxies. * Reengineered authentication code. This includes a fix for HttpClient continually attempting to authenticate to digest realms and provides for better future extensibility. * Authenticator class deprecated * Improved user documentation and example code. * Added ability to differentiate between different hosts using the same realm names. * Added support for specifying a virtual host name to use. * Fixed problem with half-closed connections causing a HttpRecoverableException to be thrown when HttpClient attempts to read from a socket. * Improved reliability with the HEAD method and servers that incorrectly include a response body. * Improved support for connection keep-alive when communicating via a proxy * Added an override of HttpClient.executeMethod that lets the caller specify an HttpState object. * HttpConnectionManager is now a property of the HttpClient class, not of the HttpState class * Added ability to specify the local address that HttpClient should create connections from. Release 2.0 Alpha 3 ------------------- Changes since Release 2.0 Alpha 2: * Abstract EntityEnclosingMethod class has been introduced to encapsulate common behaviour of all entity enclosing methods * "Expect: 100-continue" handshake support added for POST, PUT & multipart POST * Added support for chunked requests for POST and PUT. * Added support for 303 See Other redirections. * Changed input and output streams to use buffering to improve performance. * Improved handling of multivalue headers. Order is now preserved and convenience methods have been added to access each value. * In non-strict mode each cookie sent with the request is put on a separate request header. In strict mode all cookies are crammed into one request header, as before. * ResponseInputStream class deprecated. * RequestOutputStream class deprecated. * Custom character set can be specified for all multipart classes. * Custom content type can be specified for FilePart derived multipart classes. * The useDisk methods in GetMethod class deprecated. Release 2.0 Alpha 2 ------------------ Changes since Release 2.0 Alpha 1: * Mavenized builds. * Digest authentication. NTLM authentication. * Multipart post. * Added a StatusLine class to manage the status line of a http response. * Added ability to cusomize SocketFactory for http and https. New Protocol class to allow for more protocols than just http/s. * Removed the HttpMultiClient, added multi-thread support to HttpClient. * Revamp the streaming policy. Added AutoCloseInputStream, ChunkedInputStream, ChunkedOutputStream, ContentLengthInputStream, ResponseConsumedWatcher * Commons Logging. Dependancy on the commons-logging.jar * Added httpclient.util package. Move Base64 and URIUtil classs into util. * Added a HttpURLConnection wrapper. Allows for wrapping HttpClient into the java standard library. Partial support only. * Added httpclient.cookie package. Complete overhaul of cookie handling. Allows for user specified CookiePolicy and various cookie specification classes. * Removed previously deprecated Cookie.createCookieHeader(String, String,boolean,Cookie[]) method (port number is required for future compatibility). * Also removed Cookie.createCookieHeader(String,String,Cookie[]) method, which should have been deprecated (port number is required for future compatibility) * Renamed HttpMethod.followRedirects to getFollowRedirects, for consistency (and made the corresponding change to HttpMethodBase)