Name: jc17350 Date: 02/19/2002


The goal is to provide a new API for dealing with HTTP connections that would
provide a high level access while providing a lot more flexibility and
extensibility than the existing URLConnection hierarchy.

New Features wishlist:
 . pluggable cookie management
 . pluggable cache management
 . pluggable proxy management
 . pluggable authentication management
 . extensibility for higher level protocol implementations such as SOAP, WebDAV
 . support pipelining
 . support for the HTTP Extension Framework
 . access to underlying socket
 . logging
 . better property setting using Preferences API
 . Integration with NIO for non-blocking operation

This would be coupled with a rewrite of the http actual to conform to this new
API and provide a high performance reference implementation of HTTP.

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