[Io] Been making a list of Http stuff

[Todd Blanchard]

OK, this is looking harder than  I thought.  I mean, I could just  
change the class name and then update all references to it but if you  
want to package that as a MCZ file (which is package based) please  
note that we will touch the following Packages>>Classes

Framework-Download>>HttpClient  (the only class in this category BTW)

System-Support>>AutoStart
System-Support>>Project
System-Support>>ResourceCollector
System-Support>>ResourceManager
System-Support>>SystemVersion
System-Support>>Utilities

System-Download>>HttpLoader
System-Download>>ProjectLauncher

Network-RemoteDirectory>>HttpServerDirectory
Network-RemoteDirectory>>ServerDirectory

ProjectsRepositoryClient>>PRServerDirectory

Which we do not own (do we?).  There's 1-2 methods in each.   I can  
envision the following strategies:

1) Make a changeset

- or -

2) Make a Network-Legacy category for HttpClient (to be named  
HttpUtilities) and when I change each of the methods in the other  
classes make the method category *network-legacy so it becomes part  
of the package I mean to export.

What would you suggest?


On Jan 23, 2006, at 11:00 PM, Todd Blanchard wrote:

> URI relates to URL how (why was it written - they have a LOT in  
> common)?
>
> I think it would make sense to rename HttpClient to HttpUtilities  
> and bring in one of the two Http 1.1 client packages that do  
> cookies and auth and stuff.  Sound good?  If so I'll file a bug and  
> upload a changeset.
>
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:14 AM, Michael Rueger wrote:
>
>> Todd Blanchard wrote:
>>> results in a walkback as it attempts to call   
>>> HttpClient>>retrieveMIMEDocument: which doesn't exist.  Seems to  
>>> be  some mismatch and this brings us to HttpClient.
>>
>> The URI stuff is not fully integrated with the services.
>>
>>> HttpClient is a grab bag of class methods for doing fetching of  
>>> files  over http.  It is used by squeak's network update  
>>> machinery,  ProjectLauncher, and HttpServerDirectory.  I wonder  
>>> if most of what  it does couldn't be accomplished within the Url  
>>> hierarchy directly.
>>> There is also a class called HttpLoader - this one seems to try  
>>> to  perform async downloads of files over http and has a caching   
>>> variant.
>>
>> Both these classes origin about 7 years ago from my work at Disney  
>> Online. In hindsight naming HttpClient as such wasn't a good  
>> choice. And basically socket, loader and client classes could be  
>> replaced by one properly implemented client class. Basically what  
>> I did in the network rewrite with ftp client etc.
>>
>> Michael
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