title: Use HTTPClient or HttpUrlConnection?
body: <p>We're implementing a REST client on JRE 1.4.  </p>
  
  <p>Seems two good options for a client REST framework are <a href="http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/" rel="noreferrer">HttpClient</a> and <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/HttpURLConnection.html" rel="noreferrer">HttpUrlConnection</a>.  </p>
  
  <p>Is there a reason to use HttpClient over the JRE's HttpUrlConnection?</p>