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This project is mavenized version of the gnu.classpath.ext:inetlib jar. All the code is the same as in the official jar from GNU.

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This package contains an HTTP/1.1 client, as described in RFC 2616.
It supports the following features:

Persistent connections
Basic and Digest authentication (RFC 2617)
HTTPS
HTTP proxies
HTTP/1.0 compatibility
Support for WebDAV methods and other HTTP extensions
Automatic decoding of the chunked transfer-coding
Parsing of HTTP date headers
Support for the 100-continue expectation




The API is similar to the neon
WebDAV/HTTP library. A logical connection to the server is instantiated,
and multiple requests can be issued for this connection. Each request
has an atomic dispatch method which returns the response.
All I/O, authentication, etc is handled by registering callback objects
with the request prior to dispatch, which are notified during the dispatch
procedure as necessary. Simple byte-array content callbacks are supplied
which can manage any request/response content that fits in available memory.



An URL stream handler is provided, supporting the full HttpURLConnection
specification.