[Io] Re: Web Clients (was Re: Monticello authentication methods?)

[Colin Curtin]

Hey, you mean mine? :)

I'm still around, and if it's included I could go do a refactor and
maybe implement more stuff one day.


Colin


On 9/14/06, Todd Blanchard <tblanchard at mac.com> wrote:
> Oh, I thought we had decided on the HC client.   Although, I confess
> I've been looking at both.  Would the right thing to do be to just
> pick one and replace the existing HTTPSocket implementation with it?
>
> I really would like to see HTTPSocket die and I'm sorry I didn't
> follow through on that last spring.  For some reason I thought you
> were talking with the author of one or the other packages and getting
> clearance for inclusion.
>
> On Sep 14, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Ken Causey wrote:
>
> > There was discussion of replacing it within the IO team, but never any
> > decision as to what to replace it with.  That was back in April and
> > there's been no further discussion or action since then that I'm aware
> > of.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 01:23 -0700, Todd Blanchard wrote:
> >> I was under the impression we were going to deprecate that stuff in
> >> favor of the  Steve Waring's http client package.
> >>
> >> Right Ken?
> >>
> >> -Todd Blanchard
> >>
> >> On Sep 13, 2006, at 11:21 PM, stephane ducasse wrote:
> >>
> >>> So why a group of guy start to fix it!
> >>> Let's try to step by step little peeble by little peeble
> >>> improve...No giant step just a tiny and simple one
> >>>
> >>>>> Note that this is not doing you any good security-wise, because
> >>>>> MC will
> >>>>> send the basic-auth user:password anyway, and only if that fails,
> >>>>> digest
> >>>>> is tried. HTTPSocket authentication needs to be completely
> >>>>> reworked.
> >>>>
> >>>> Not only authentication, everything. The whole class is just awful.
> >>>>
> >>>> Philippe
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
>
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