[WAGON-618] Remove HTTP file listing with JSoup

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.5.0
• Component/s: wagon-http, wagon-http-lightweight
• Assignee: Michael Osipov
• Reporter: Michael Osipov
• Created: 18/Dec/21 18:34
• Updated: 26/Dec/21 17:54
• Resolved: 19/Dec/21 16:47

Description

This feature has several issues:

• HTTP does not provide any file listing because HTTP operates on resources only. There is no notion of directories. FS-semantics is available with WebDAV only. Generated listings are the result of mod_dir and friends.
• If a listing is used you cannot assume any specific format, this being brittle, unreliable and incorrect at worst.
• Annoying reports like MNG-7227 and WAGON-612
• We cannot comply with the license correctly WAGON-574

For all of those reasons this approach gives a little benifit adding something which does not have any semantics at all.

Issue Links

• supercedes: WAGON-612 Update jsoup to >= 1.14.2 for fix security issue
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #79