HTTPClient (was Re: [BUG] Can't load BFAV into any 3.7 image)

Doug Way dway at mailcan.com
Fri Mar 12 20:32:18 UTC 2004


Michael Rueger wrote:

> Brent Vukmer wrote:
>
>> Which platform are you on?  If Windows, then are you using the 3.6.2 VM?
>> Pre-3.6.2 VMs and the BFAV don't mix well when networking operations are
>> attempted.
>
>
> Oh, good to know!
> Might be helpful to mention that in the install package. Or did I 
> overlook it? RTFM ;-)


I got bit by this too, so I added a troubleshooting blurb about this on 
the BFAV2 swiki page:

http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3508

>> Hmmm..  Well, regarding the in-image HTTPClient code - partial-get is
>> essential to how the BFAV loads updates, and AFAICT the in-image code
>> doesn't provide the API methods I needed for partial-get requests.  Care
>> to upgrade the in-image stuff so that it is as HTTP 1.1 compliant as is
>> the SM package?
>

Would it make any sense to replace the in-image HTTPClient code with the 
more full-featured HTTPClient package that the BFAV uses?  Quite a few 
people have been using the BFAV which depends on it, so it's probably 
reasonably robust.

Ooh, wait a minute, I see that the HTTPClient package is ported from 
Dolphin, and is not under Squeak-L.  So, maybe not.  (unless it is under 
MIT or somesuch)

- Doug





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