That would normally be done if you want to get those params before you have
parsed the form data. At some point, there were cases of that. And it’s
likely done with an attempt to be generic and work with whatever format
since it’s essentially a feature in user code. If the current use doesn’t
need
The
method
org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrClientBuilderBase#withTheseParamNamesInTheUrl
is only used by UpdateShardHandler so that "distrib.from" and
"update.distrib" (used by DistributedUpdateProcessor) are guaranteed to be
in the URL. It appears Dat added this during the http2 branch
