[Io] help with HTTPClient

[Steve Hunter]

Hello Todd,

 Thanks for responding. Our application is a "full blow web app", the
back-end is VAST web connect. The Graphical Modeler (essentially a web based
case tool) is a Squeak Plugin application (pr file) which communicates with
the back-end, providing a different UI for the same underlying content
served by the VAST back-end (so we have a "forms" based html UI, and a
"LinesNboxes case tool" UI based on Squeak). 

 

The requirements are pretty simple, the Squeak application needs to fetch
images, and it needs to get and put xml.  

We need proxy and https support, hence using HTTPClient which relegates
proxy and https work to the browser, so essentially the application
gets/puts content on a socket.

 

Colin Curtin had the same (negative) comments with respect to the native
HTTPClient in Squeak and said the community was considering replacing it,
and the implementations he was aware of are below..I guess yours can now be
added. 

 

Squeak native
Steve Waring's
Colib Curtin
LibCurl

 

My first objective is to solve the issue at hand, which we think is a timing
related problem somewhere between Squeak and the browser, but not sure yet.
However, since our (Commercial) application relies on a client side
application (squeak plugin), communicating over http to the server, we
absolutely need a rock-solid networking layer. We also want to move our html
UI up to "AJAX style" html UI's (or essentially getting back to
client-server programming using a browser as the client and therefore need
that solid networking layer) So, I'd encourage the community to pick the
best of what people have done and build a common, solid, HTTPClient layer.
FWIW, our application is being deployed throughout a company that lives by
the slogan; the network is the computer, and our networking bits do not
impress them at the moment. But.the application running over the net is
impressive so, hopefully, if we can fix the network bits, all will be
forgotten and we can get back to impressing based on what the application
can do.

 

regards,

 Steve

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From: Todd Blanchard [mailto:tblanchard at mac.com] 
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 8:15 PM
To: Steve Hunter
Subject: Re: [Io] help with HTTPClient

 

I know that HTTPClient is an awful hack and there are better solutions. I've
put some time into killing off HTTPClient and replacing it with one of the
better built HTTP protocol stacks.

 

What is the range of requirements? Just fetching? Handling puts? Is it a
full blown web app? Did you use Seaside or something else?

 

-Todd Blanchard

 

On Oct 28, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Steve Hunter wrote:





All,

Our product
(http://www.agilense.com/documents/EA-GraphicalModeler_final.pdf) is built
on Squeak. It is essentially a web based case tool which gets/sends its
contents via HTTPClient. It is being deployed to a large Solaris based
customer and we are having problems in the HTTPClient layer. Solution to
this is urgent, I am flying Bert Freudenberg in from Germany tomorrow
(Sunday 29th ) to Colorado to help solve the problem (Bert worked on the
Squeak Plugin on Unix). However, it would be very useful to have a team of
folks that know the HTTPClient/sockets layer that we can communicate
questions with as we work thru the issue. Is there anybody out there?

regards,

Steve



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