HttpClient 4.1-alpha1 builds on the stable 4.0.1 release and adds several functionality improvements and new features.
- Simplified configuration of connection managers.
- Persistence of authentication data between request executions within the same execution context.
- Support for SPNEGO/Kerberos authentication scheme
- Support for transparent content encoding. Please note transparent content encoding is not enabled per default in order to avoid conflicts with already existing custom content encoding solutions.
- 5 to 10% performance increase due to elimination of unnecessary Log object lookups by short-lived components.
Please note all methods and classes added in this release and marked as
4.1 are API unstable and can change in the future 4.1 ALPHA releases.
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Download -
<http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi>
Release notes -
<http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpclient/RELEASE_NOTES.txt>
HttpComponents site -
<http://hc.apache.org/>
Please note HttpClient 4.x currently provides only limited support for
NTLM authentication. For details please refer to
<http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/ntlm.html>
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