Re: HTTPURLConnection.connect() buffers its entire input.

[Chris Burdess]

David Daney wrote:
> That is all well and good, however it seems to me that the primary 
> responsibility of the core implementation of HTTP in classpath is to 
> provide the same level of support that Sun's implementation has.

It does have the same support, and more. It just does things slightly 
differently. There isn't anything in the specification of 
HttpURLConnection that states that it supports resources of arbitrary 
length. For resources of ordinary length, the inetlib-based 
implementation can significantly outperform Sun's implementation.

> A secondary consideration would be to have hooks so that other 
> proprietary libraries could hook into it to add enhanced non-standard 
> features.

What kind of thing are you imagining? I am not a big fan of proprietary 
libraries and non-standard features in general.
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Chris Burdess
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