HttpClient version 4.3 -> 4.5 ?

[Brent Putman]

On 10/18/16 9:40 AM, Cantor, Scott wrote:
>> While seeing changes related to HttpClient go by, I'm curious if/when we
>> upgrade to 4.5.x. (JSPT-60)

It's been on my mind, but it's not as simple as some other deps where
we just change the version in the POM, and if all the tests still pass,
we're good.  My impression was that there are some potentially
"disturbing" technical changes going on in there...


>> (FWIW I don't have any particular reason to want to upgrade nor have I
>> reviewed their changelog, but I do know I've had to use the newer version of
>> HttpClient along with newer versions of Selenium.)
> Would need to see the chanelog at a minimum, but this late it would take a lot of testing also.

It would certainly need a lot of testing, but it may also need code
changes too, or at least detailed review of our code.  We have some
fairly complex custom things for HC, and we'd need to make sure that
all that was correct, or needed some changes, additions, etc ported
over.   IIRC I'm also pretty sure they deprecated a bunch of stuff that
we would need to change on our side.

At this point, I'd propose we do it for a 3.4.

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