[WAGON-402] Upgrade Apache HttpClient based wagon provider to HttpClient 4.3

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.6
• Component/s: wagon-http
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Olivier Lamy
• Reporter: Oleg Kalnichevski
• Created: 18/Sep/13 11:41
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:54
• Resolved: 21/Oct/13 22:07

Description

Please consider upgrading wagon-http to Apache HttpClient 4.3. Version 4.3 comes with a number of improvements, new configuration APIs probably being the most relevant for wagen-http, and is also expected to be somewhat faster than 4.2.

The patch attached removes references to deprecated APIs and replaces them with equivalent newer ones while trying to preserve the overall design and structure. If this patch gets accepted I could also try to re-work things slightly in order to reduce total code footprint and optimize the use of HttpClient functionality.

Please note that the patch breaks full binary compatibility with the latest stable version due to removal of deprecated HttpClient classes used in the public APIs. I hope this is acceptable.

Oleg

Oleg