Currently, the Library Simplified Android app is using a rather elderly application-specific wrapper over the old-style HttpURLConnection class. This wrapper implements various bits of LS-specific logic such as trying requests without authentication first (due to the way that various book distributors handle redirects), parsing problem reports, and so on.

The AudioBooks API uses the more modern okhttp library directly.

This means that there's a subtle difference in how HTTP requests behave based on which component of the application as a whole is making the requests.

I'd like to introduce an application-agnostic HTTP client library that implements all of the LS-specific logic. I'd then refactor the app and the audio books components to use that library. The library itself would be a thin wrapper over okhttp but using our policies.