引用地址：

http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/

End of life

The Commons HttpClient project is now end of life, and is no longer being developed. It has been replaced by the Apache HttpComponents project in its HttpClient andHttpCore modules, which offer better performance and more flexibility.

History

HttpClient was started in 2001 as a subproject of the Jakarta Commons, based on code developed by the Jakarta Slide project. It was promoted out of the Commons in 2004, graduating to a separate Jakarta project. In 2005, the HttpComponents project at Jakarta was created, with the task of developing a successor to HttpClient 3.x and to maintain the existing codebase until the new one is ready to take over.（2005年，在雅加达HttpComponents项目被创建，开发一个继承到的HttpClient3.x的任务，并保持现有的代码库，直到新的准备接管。目前它已经被 Apache HttpComponents project中的HttpClient和HttpCore接管） The Commons project, cradle of HttpClient, left Jakarta in 2007 to become an independent Top Level Project. Later in the same year, the HttpComponents project also left Jakarta to become an independent Top Level Project, taking the responsibility for maintaining HttpClient with it.