After years of using half baked solutions from other libraries which are now old, defunct or just plain don't work.. I've finally bit the bullet and created a nice, easy to use and unencumbered ant http task.
It is Apache 2.0 licensed and has the following things going for it: Easy to use No third party library dependencies BASIC authentication support HTTP header support GET, PUT, POST, HEAD, TRACE, OPTIONS and DELETE methods supported Query parameters can be set via XML nodes (or in the URL of course) Request entity can be set in-line (e.g. <![CDATA []]> block) or through a file Flexible log/print options Flexible error checking options (you can define the expected response status code, and if to fail on an unexpected code) The build process is *not* maven dependent, which means if someone wants to fix/patch/extend the task they can easily check out the self-contained eclipse project and simply run "ant dist" to create a full distribution with documentation, binaries and source. Announcement: http://missinglinkcode.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/apache-ant-http-task Google code project: http://code.google.com/p/missing-link/ -- Alexander Sherwin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
