Plans to upgrade HttpClient to latest ?

[Tom Zeller]

>> Not a big deal, I ask because the latest Selenium has a dependency on 4.4.1. Not sure if there was a reason to stay on 4.3.
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> Don't know yet.  IIRC there might have been some API changes that I wanted to vet related to the TLS socket factories, and maybe some other things they deprecated which we might need to address to avoid falling out of sync.

Noting that 4.4 expected a hostname verifier not found in 4.3, not surprisingly, that's what broke for me.