[Network] Greetings

[goran at krampe.se]

Hi Todd!

Todd Blanchard <tblanchard at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've joined the network list because my project is doing a lot with http and I'm finding the various bits of http related code around the image lack any kind of cohesion.  I'd like to help clean that up.

Good. :)
 
> My current project can be found at http://www.blackbagops.net/seaside/squeak
> 
> It is a service that downloads a web page, parses it and builds a dom tree, downloads associated CSS files, and produces an error report on the whole lot.  When I started doing the associated CSS file downloads I began to run into problems.  I also would like to get caching and cookie support.
> 
> It sounds like most of the activity lately is on low level socket stuff - that's a level below what interests me (except that async downloads are very important to me for performance).
> 
> Did I join the wrong list or does this sound like the kind of topic Network/IO should be tackling?

No, this is the right team - but we might be moving to a new list after
the merge - not sure what our status is on that, but we will of course
post about it.

Regarding the HTTP protocol I think we need to make an inventory - there
are so many different implementations now - several on SM - and I would
guess the one in the image is not one of the "better" ones.

But for the moment I would like for us to focus on cleaning up Mantis,
you know - first things first etc. Cees is team leader now, but I know
he agrees. :)

That doesn't prevent us from discussing these things of cours, I just
want to remind us that Mantis needs us. ;)

regards, Göran