Improve description of TestRestTemplate's Apache client defaults

Closes gh-45842
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Andy Wilkinson
2025-06-17 19:30:16 +01:00
parent 2e423a75a6
commit 82f9491a74
@@ -53,10 +53,7 @@ It provides a fluent API for assertions, unlike javadoc:org.springframework.boot
It is recommended, but not mandatory, to use the Apache HTTP Client (version 5.1 or better).
If you have that on your classpath, the javadoc:org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplate[] responds by configuring the client appropriately.
If you do use Apache's HTTP client, some additional test-friendly features are enabled:
* Redirects are not followed (so you can assert the response location).
* Cookies are ignored (so the template is stateless).
If you do use Apache's HTTP client it is configured to ignore cookies (so the template is stateless).
javadoc:org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplate[] can be instantiated directly in your integration tests, as shown in the following example: