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

[Todd Blanchard]

Ah, well if you want to help make sure its in there - rewrite all  
users of HTTPSocket to use your stuff.  Sure way to make it happen. :-)


On Sep 14, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Colin Curtin wrote:

> 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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