The Jakarta Commons HttpClient project is pleased to announce the release of HttpClient 3.0. This release fixes all of the bugs discovered in RC4. As before, we strongly recommend that all users upgrade to HttpClient 3.0. HttpClient 3.0 provides the following new features: Architecture New preference architecture Improved exception handling framework Granular non-standards configuration and tracking Improved HTTP Version configuration and tracking Support for streaming entities Support for tunneled HTTP proxies via the ProxyClient Ability to abort execution of HTTP methods

Connection management Support for closing idle connections Support for JDK1.4 connect timeout through reflection Support for connection manager shutdown

Authentication Improved authentication framework Plug-in mechanism for authentication modules Interactive authentication support Alternate authentication support

Cookie management Cookie specification plug-in mechanism 'Ignore cookies' cookie policy Improved Netscape cookie support

Redirects Cross-site redirect support

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Download - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_commons-httpclient.cgi

Release notes - http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/httpclient/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

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