Package org.apache.commons.httpclient

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

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Interface Summary
Credentials Authentication credentials.
HttpMethod A request to be applied to an HttpConnection, and a container for the associated response.
 

Class Summary
Cookie An HTTP "magic-cookie", as specified in RFC 2109.
Header An HTTP header.
HeaderElement One element of an HTTP header's value.
HttpClient An HTTP "user-agent", containing an HttpState and one or more HttpConnections, to which HttpMethods can be applied.
HttpConnection An abstraction of an HTTP InputStream and OutputStream pair, together with the relevant attributes.
HttpMethodBase An abstract base implementation of HttpMethod.
HttpState A container for HTTP attributes that may persist from request to request, such as Cookies and authentication Credentials.
HttpStatus Constants enumerating the HTTP status codes.
NameValuePair A simple class encapsulating a name/value pair.
RequestOutputStream OutputStream wrapper supporting the chunked transfer encoding.
ResponseInputStream InputStream wrapper supporting the chunked transfer encoding.
URIUtil General purpose methods for encoding URI's, as described in RFC 2396.
UsernamePasswordCredentials Username and password Credentials.
 

Exception Summary
HttpException Signals that an HTTP or HTTP Client exception has occurred.
 

Package org.apache.commons.httpclient Description

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

The HTTP Client 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.

The basis for the abstraction is provided by three types:

and several simple bean-style classes:

HttpClient provides a simple "user-agent" implementation that will suffice for many applications, but whose use is not required.

HTTP Client also provides several utilities that may be useful when extending the framework:



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