HttpClient-4.0.3.jar

Standards based, pure Java, implementation of HTTP versions 1.0 and 1.1 Full implementation of all HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, and TRACE) in an extensible OO framework. Supports encryption with HTTPS (HTTP over SSL) protocol. Transparent connections through HTTP proxies. Tunneled HTTPS connections through HTTP proxies, via the CONNECT method. Basic, Digest, NTLMv1, NTLMv2, NTLM2 Session, SNPNEGO/Kerberos authentication schemes. Plug-in mechanism for custom authentication schemes. Pluggable secure socket factories, making it easier to use third party solutions Connection management support for use in multi-threaded applications. Supports setting the maximum total connections as well as the maximum connections per host. Detects and closes stale connections. Automatic Cookie handling for reading Set-Cookie: headers from the server and sending them back out in a Cookie: header when appropriate. Plug-in mechanism for custom cookie policies. Request output streams to avoid buffering any content body by streaming directly to the socket to the server. Response input streams to efficiently read the response body by streaming directly from the socket to the server. Persistent connections using KeepAlive in HTTP/1.0 and persistance in HTTP/1.1 Direct access to the response code and headers sent by the server. The ability to set connection timeouts. Experimental support for HTTP/1.1 response caching. Source code is freely available under the Apache License.