Apache Jakarta Commons HttpClient Java Client-side HTTP implementation in Java. 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. commons-httpclient 2005-12-19 3.0