[Newbies] HTTPSocket class - getting to the instance

[Todd Blanchard]

The ugly details are found in HttpSocket's class side method;
httpGetDocument: url args: args accept: mimeType request: requestString

Its a little ugly - an HttpRequest class should bundle up a lot of  
that complexity in a nice data structure that represents the  
structure of a request.

But there it is.

On Aug 24, 2006, at 8:58 AM, andy.burnett at knowinnovation.com wrote:

>
> First, Smalltalk is just amazing!  I am so impressed with what it  
> is possible to do - with practically no knowledge!
>
> Second. Due to my lack of knowledge I am now stuck ;-)
>
> I am still working on the problem of building a Smalltalk version  
> of Wget.  I have used the HTTPClient as my basic object and that is  
> doing most of what I want. However, I can't get to the HTTP  
> Headers. I noticed that HTTPSocket does seem to offer the headers  
> but this is where I get stuck.
>
> The creation methods of HTTPSocket  (i.e. telling it which url to  
> go to) seem to only exist on the class side.  But the methods for  
> getting to headers etc only exist in the instance.  I can't work  
> out how to create an instance of the socket and tell it which url  
> to go to.  All the construction methods just seem to return the class.
>
> Obviously I am missing something pretty basic. Could someone please  
> enlighten me?
>
> TVM
> AB
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