Major Description
The doxia core still uses commons-httpclient-3.x, although the HttpComponents site tells the following:
HttpClient is a HTTP/1.1 compliant HTTP agent implementation based on HttpCore. It also provides reusable components for client-side authentication, HTTP state management, and HTTP connection management. HttpComponents Client is a successor of and replacement for Commons HttpClient 3.x. Users of Commons HttpClient are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
With this patch DOXIA-394 might be fixed as well, or at least a step closer.