Feature: Modern httpClient

[mikey75]

Maybe it would be nice to stop relying on httpurlrequest and use some decent multithreaded/async http client for tile fetching.

[msteiger]

Is there anything wrong with the current implementation? It runs multi-threaded in the background and provides tiles in an async manner. You are certainly right saying that many parts of the implementation could be modernized :-)

[mikey75]

Nothing wrong :) Just a suggestion

[intuitionbase]

A reason for adding a more flexible HTTP client (like Apache HttpClient) might be more flexibility with proxy configuration and also authentication. Currently, the project runs under the global proxy configuration of the VM.

For my usecase, I'd strongly appreciate the option to set a specific proxy just for JXMapViewer2. Being able to set authentication headers for the map service would be another plus.

Any chance we will see that in the future?

[msteiger]

I think that it would be good to have that flexibility - any chance you could implement it and create a PR?

[intuitionbase]

That's for my employer to decide, but it doesn't look likely, sorry...

[msteiger]

Maybe I can sketch something during the next 2-3 weeks ...

[intuitionbase]

Sounds promising! Ideally, each TileFactory would have its own HttpClient and proxy configuration.