Re: [p2-dev] ECF provider based upon httpclient4/httpcomponents

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

On 9/13/2012 5:06 PM, Ian Bull wrote:
> Thanks Scott! (And the entire ECF Team). I've been using 
> httpcomponents myself (for some other work), and IMHO it's the one we 
> want to be using (since, as you said, it's the technology that's 
> currently under active development).
>
> Scott, what's involved from a p2 standpoint. Obviously the release 
> engineering work to consume this provider and thorough regression 
> testing.  Is there development that will also need to be done, or does 
> ECF take care of all the abstraction there?  IIRC, none of the 
> providers leak into p2, so from a p2 code standpoint, there really 
> should be no difference. Is that correct?

Yes, that's correct.   I don't anticipate any further significant 
development for p2.   The only caveat to that may be around NTLM2 
support...I'm not yet sure how httpclient4 has/does that.

WRT p2 involvement...IMHO the most important thing is around regression 
testing...particularly around proxies of different types.

Scott