CHANGES.md

From 2.0 to 2.1

• AHC 2.1 targets Netty 4.1.
• org.asynchttpclient.HttpResponseHeaders was dropped in favor of io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaders.
• org.asynchttpclient.cookie.Cookie was dropped in favor of io.netty.handler.codec.http.cookie.Cookie as AHC's cookie parsers were contributed to Netty.
• AHC now has a RFC6265 CookieStore that is enabled by default. Implementation can be changed in AsyncHttpClientConfig.
• AsyncHttpClient now exposes stats with getClientStats.
• AsyncHandlerExtensions was dropped in favor of default methods in AsyncHandler.
• WebSocket and WebSocketListener methods were renamed to mention frames
• AsyncHttpClientConfig various changes:
  • new getCookieStore now lets you configure a CookieStore (enabled by default)
  • new isAggregateWebSocketFrameFragments now lets you disable WebSocket fragmented frames aggregation
  • new isUseLaxCookieEncoder lets you loosen cookie chars validation
  • isAcceptAnyCertificate was dropped, as it didn't do what its name stated
  • new isUseInsecureTrustManager lets you use a permissive TrustManager, that would typically let you accept self-signed certificates
  • new isDisableHttpsEndpointIdentificationAlgorithm disables setting HTTPS algorithm on the SSLEngines, typically disables SNI and HTTPS hostname verification
  • new isAggregateWebSocketFrameFragments lets you disable fragmented WebSocket frames aggregation