With GEOT-5859 resolved GeoServer no longer requires direct dependency on commons-httpclient, and can use the newer version (see GEOS-7606).
commons-httpclient
The commons-httpclient dependency was removed by:
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/6104
@Ian Turton did the work on this one, I am just catching the GeoServer build up.
With GEOT-5859 resolved GeoServer no longer requires direct dependency on
commons-httpclient
, and can use the newer version (see GEOS-7606).