[Io] Re: HTTPSocket, OldSimpleClientSocket, OldSocket saga continues...

[Michael Rueger]

Ken Causey wrote:
> If we have any hope of doing anything about OldSocket and children for
> 3.9 the time is now.

I did a little hack porting get to socket stream and the performance 
improvement was staggering.
So, YES, PLEASE :-)

> I'm currently strongly considering incorporating  Steve Waring/Brent
> Vukmer's HTTPClient.  It was used pretty heavily for BFAV2 and so has
> some fairly wide testing.  It is a bit of a monster but includes a lot
> of functionality.  As has been previously mentioned it cannot be
> download from SqueakMap any longer but I have a copy of it.

I took a brief look at it and it seems, as you said, a bit of a monster. 
It's also only partially integrated with system stuff, a few 
things/classes that seem to be duplicated from existing ones.

Having said that I would still vote to include it. We can always do 
incremental changes later.

Michael