Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact commons-httpclient-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list commons-httpclient-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 18645 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 12:03:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nose.ch) (195.134.131.71) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 14 Aug 2003 12:03:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 11851 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 12:03:30 -0000 Received: from calvin.nose.ch (HELO nose.ch) (192.168.1.7) by 0 with SMTP; 14 Aug 2003 12:03:30 -0000 Message-ID: <3F3B7A90.8030303@nose.ch> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:03:28 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ortwin_Gl=FCck?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 X-Accept-Language: de-ch, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Commons HttpClient Project Subject: Re: JDK 1.1.8 problems References: <1DF6E2D62721D14B8866786D862BE0DB0163E1C2@dourado.neogrid.com.br> In-Reply-To: <1DF6E2D62721D14B8866786D862BE0DB0163E1C2@dourado.neogrid.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N George Gastaldi wrote: > I don't think it would be a good idea to scramble HTTPClient's code with > checks for < 1.2 versions. > IMHO, the main requirement for HTTPClient MUST be Java 1.2 and above. > > George Yep. Totally agreed. If your application needs to do complex HTTP stuff, then it is too complex for 1.1.8 anyway and you should seriously consider moving to Java 2. I mean, there is Java 2 for most OS out there. Mac OS's community obviously is too small that they do not even manage to provide their own Java 2 implementation.