Name: jc17350 Date: 02/19/2002
The goal is to provide a new API for dealing with HTTP connections that would
provide a high level access while providing a lot more flexibility and
extensibility than the existing URLConnection hierarchy.
New Features wishlist:
. pluggable cookie management
. pluggable cache management
. pluggable proxy management
. pluggable authentication management
. extensibility for higher level protocol implementations such as SOAP, WebDAV
. support pipelining
. support for the HTTP Extension Framework
. access to underlying socket
. logging
. better property setting using Preferences API
. Integration with NIO for non-blocking operation
This would be coupled with a rewrite of the http actual to conform to this new
API and provide a high performance reference implementation of HTTP.
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