HttpClient Library

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org.apache.commons.httpclient

Classes and interfaces supporting the client side of the HTTP protocol.

The HttpClient component supports the client-side of RFC 1945 (HTTP/1.0) and RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1), several related specifications (RFC 2109 (Cookies), RFC 2617 (HTTP Authentication), etc.), and provides a framework by which new request types (methods) or HTTP extensions can can be easily created or supported.

org.apache.commons.httpclient.authProvides implementation of various authentication schemes as well as utility classes that can be used to authenticate HTTP requests.
org.apache.commons.httpclient.cookieProvides cookie handling in conjunction with Cookie.
org.apache.commons.httpclient.methodsClasses implementing HttpMethod for the base HTTP methods.
org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.multipartProvides Multipart support classes for the MultipartPostMethod.
org.apache.commons.httpclient.paramsHttpClient preferences framework.
org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocolProvides protocol specific socket factory handling.
org.apache.commons.httpclient.utilProvides some utility classes for use by HttpClient.

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