[CXF-6704] Upgrade to httpclient 4.5.x

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.4
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.5, 3.2.0
• Component/s: Core
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Freeman Yue Fang
• Reporter: Grzegorz Grzybek
• Created: 10/Dec/15 10:16
• Updated: 14/Oct/16 14:19
• Resolved: 16/Dec/15 05:35

Description

CXF 3.1.x uses httpclient 4.4.x which has a bug (HTTPCLIENT-1652) related to auth cache. They switched to serialization when caching auth objects and a scenario with authenticated proxy is now broken.
It is fixed with httpclient 4.5.

Is it ok to upgrade CXF to use httpclient 4.5.x?

Issue Links

• relates to: HTTPCLIENT-1649 Caching of proxy auth schemes is broken
• relates to: HTTPCLIENT-1652 AuthSchemeBase.challengeState doesn't survive serialisation in BasicAuthCache