Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
HttpClient 4.x is not actively developed.
We use Httpclient directly in the REST client code, and in the tests for several modules.
Httpclient 4.5 is a transitive dependency at least from Hadoop and Thrift, but httpclient 5.x uses a separate java package, so 4.5 and 5.x should be able to co-exist fine.
As of now, Httpclient 4.5 is in maintenance mode:
https://hc.apache.org/status.html