Re: http bug
On 20-01-2010 14:53, Lothar Kimmeringer wrote:
Daniel Pitts wrote:
I often find the standard HttpUrlConnection lacking, and usually go with
apache commons HttpClient instead. You have more control of the
process, if you care, but it also "works" out-of-the-box if you don't
want to configure it as much.
The last time I checked, GetMethod and PostMethod were two
classes sharing a lot of methods but not a common superclass.
Sure?
HttpClient 2.0.2 has a common super class.
So you end up with code like this
if (performGet) {
methodGet = new GetMethod(host + url);
methodGet.setQueryString(query);
methodGet.setDoAuthentication(authNeeded);
methodGet.getParams().setParameter("http.socket.timeout",
Integer.valueOf(timeout));
methodGet.getParams().setParameter(
HttpMethodParams.RETRY_HANDLER, retryhandler);
methodGet.setRequestHeader("Connection", "keep-alive");
methodGet.setRequestHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
}
else {
methodPost = new PostMethod(host + url);
methodPost.setRequestHeader("Connection", "keep-alive");
methodPost.setDoAuthentication(authNeeded);
methodPost.getParams().setParameter("http.socket.timeout",
Integer.valueOf(timeout));
methodPost.getParams().setParameter(
HttpMethodParams.RETRY_HANDLER, retryhandler);
methodPost.setRequestHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
}
and so on. If you have a specific HTTP-session to handle
programmatically, HttpClient is nice, but if you have to
build different HTTP-requests in dependence of external
configurations, you have a lot of duplicate code that
is prone to errors.
Most HTTP request receivers are either POST or GET anyway.
I can not imagine sending the exact same data to an URL
just with different method should be that common.
Arne
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