von: Michael Becke, Jeff Dever, dIon Gillard, Ortwin Glueck, Sung-Gu, Oleg Kalnichevski, Sean C. Sullivan, Adrian Sutton, Rodney Waldhoff
The HttpClient component supports the client-side of RFC 1945 (HTTP/1.0) and RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) , several related specifications (RFC 2109 (Cookies) , RFC 2617 (HTTP Authentication) , etc.), and provides a framework by which new request types (methods) or HTTP extensions can be created easily.