Well, maybe it shouldn't be.  HTTPSocket is a mess, so using it as a
basis for much of anything is questionable!

A quick try, thuogh, shows that at least a couple of methods are reused.
 Probably these could be pushed up into SimpleClientSocket, however!

-Lex



"Andy Stoffel" <acs at campus.com> wrote:
> A simple question out of pure curiosity.... I'm sure someone 
> here must know or know where I cure this case of curiosity.
> 
> I was just wondering why FTPSocket is a subclass of HTTPSocket
> instead of SimpleClientSocket ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Andy-