On 2025/03/20 20:08:38 Gary Gregory wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > On 2025/03/19 20:44:29 Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > > > Folks > > > > > > Can we make a decision of some sort? > > > > > > Michael, you seem to prefer we continue to support MIME in HttpClient. > > > > > > What we can do is to add a statement to the HttpClient 5.5 release > > > notes that we are considering dropping support for MIME entities in > > > HttpClient in favor of Apache Mime4J and ask those who would like us to > > > continue to support MIME get in touch. Some commitment to help us > > > maintain MIME code would also help > > > > If it aint broken, don't fix it. > > Nice :-) > > I haven't used MIME4J myself, therefore I don't know the overhead. > What I would do is: > > * Reinstantiate the random boundary in our code > > I like that one, should this be based on Random or SecureRandom though?
UUID is enough for my taste. > > * Provide an HttpEntity around the MIME4J code (write only, no parsing) > > with examples ideally > > If we do this, I prefer we use a new Maven module, to avoid Maven > optional dependencies when we can. Agree, a new module seems legit. Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org
