[HtmlUnit] [ htmlunit-Feature Requests-773552 ] Support proxy better - use http client more

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Feature Requests item #773552, was opened at 2003-07-18 06:59
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Robert Wittams (rjwittams)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Support proxy better - use http client more

Initial Comment:
Use http clients abilities more. 

The proxy server and credential apis are too simple. 
Eg NTLM auth, etc. 
Why not expose the HttpClient credential api?


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>Comment By: Mike Bowler (mbowler)
Date: 2003-07-18 15:52

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The original plan was to completely isolate
commons-httpclient so that it could be replaced if needed. 
At the time, it was not being actively maintained so this
seemed a reasonable precaution.

Today commons-httpclient is being very actively maintained
so this decision doesn't make as much sense as it used to. 
Exposing the api isn't quite as simple as it sounds as there
isn't a one-to-one mapping of WebClient to HttpClient.  This
was due to weaknesses in the httpclient api at the time the
WebConnection was initially written.  I believe that this
could be changed today but it would require pretty much a
rewrite of HttpWebConnection.

I'll have to give this some thought.

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