[jsword-devel] HttpURLConnection - HttpClient

[Chris Burrell]

According to my own access logs, I can say that STEP uses the following:

"Apache-HttpClient/4.3.2 (java 1.5)"

Was yours a typo? or is this a new one?

Cheers
Chris


On 7 July 2015 at 15:38, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:

> Here is how JSword shows up in the HTTP logs:
> The different lines represent different releases of JSword combined with
> different versions of Java.
> Apache-HttpClient/UNAVAILABLE (java 1.5)
> Apache-HttpClient/UNAVAILABLE (java 1.4)
> Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1
> Apache-HttpClient/4.2.3 (java 1.5)
> Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.0.1
> These are ordered by frequency from the most frequent to the least. I’m
> looking to see if there are others.
>
> Can we figure out which of these are AndBible code? BibleDesktop? AlKitab?
> STeP?
>
> What’s with java 1.4 still being used?
>
> At a minimum I’d like this User Agent to also include the application name
> (E.g. RipOff XYZ), the code base (AndBible, BibleDesktop, AlKitab, STeP),
> the code base version number. And anything else that might be interesting.
>
> Currently Xiphos and PocketSword identify themselves and include the
> version number.
>
> — DM
>
>
> On Jul 4, 2015, at 2:52 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
>
> I was hoping that an Android app can get the name of the application as
> displayed to the end user. And that it can be used. That way a ripoff would
> be identified as they typically change the name and add advertising.
>
> — DM
>
>
> On Jul 4, 2015, at 2:49 PM, Chris Burrell <christopher.burrell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Don t rip offs take all if the same code? Unless you provide it at compile
> time, which just makes it slightly trickier to get to it, but ultimately it
> a still there... What were you thinking?
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> Subject: Re: [jsword-devel] HttpURLConnection - HttpClient
>
> Regarding agent, I’d like to have it pick up the Application name, such
> that a rip-off’s replacement of AndBible will result in the ripoff’s name
> being in the agent string.
>
> — DM
>
> On Jul 4, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Chris Burrell <chris at burrell.me.uk> wrote:
>
> With Java, I think you simply set the http.agent property at a System
> level.
>
> We already have a CWProject.setFrontendName() that could be used to obtain
> the frontend's identity, though presumably that would be mostly empty.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 4 July 2015 at 17:41, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
>
>> If we can do it without disruption to desktop apps, i.e. non-Android, I’m
>> fine with changing to something different. I’d be happy to test it in
>> BibleDesktop.
>> Do you know if they have FTP support as well. I’m nearly done with adding
>> SWORD style FTP support.
>>
>> Also, I’d like to suggest that we figure out how to modify the User Agent
>> of the request to indicate the application name. We’d like to quantify the
>> downloads by app and perhaps the version of the app.
>>
>> — DM
>>
>> On Jul 4, 2015, at 9:10 AM, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does anybody have any thoughts or considerations regarding the use of
>> HttpClient by JSword as opposed to the use of HttpURLConnection?
>>
>> Recently I investigated the use of And Bible on Chrome using ARC Welder
>> <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/arc-welder/emfinbmielocnlhgmfkkmkngdoccbadn>
>> and discovered that Apache HttpClient is currently incompatible with
>> Chromium (see issue
>> <https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=384940>) .  Then I
>> also stumbled over this recommendation by Google
>> <http://developer.android.com/training/basics/network-ops/connecting.html#http-client>
>> to use HttpURLConnection on Android rather than other http clients.
>>
>> I realise Android is just one of many OSs that JSword runs on but
>> wondered what thoughts people might have regarding the use of this library
>> as opposed to HttpURLConnection.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Martin
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