what the relationship between commons-httpclient and httpclient, both from apache

java httpclient apache-commons
user496949 picture user496949 · Mar 1, 2011 · Viewed 17.2k times · Source

Any relationship or difference between those two libraries.

Answer

skaffman picture skaffman · Mar 1, 2011

Commons HttpClient is an old project that produced HttpClient 3.1. The project was subsumed by the larger Apache HttpComponents project, which produced HttpClient 4.x.

It's rather confusing and a bit political, but the old Commons HttpClient library is now deprecated.

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