[Io] Been making a list of Http stuff

[Todd Blanchard]

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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