HTTPSocket, Cookies and HTTPS?

Sean Glazier sglazier at comcast.net
Mon Jun 13 23:59:17 UTC 2005


You could use the visualworks non commercial and get https access in
smalltalk natively. I know several companies that use it to post their
nasdau trade transactions via the secure web pages native and in smalltalk.

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[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Andrew
Greenberg
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 1:02 PM
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Subject: HTTPSocket, Cookies and HTTPS?

I am thinking about working up some screen-scraping code in Squeak,  
and have been reviewing the HTTP functionality of the core image.   
For my purposes, I'll be needing to do some detailed HTTPs  
transactions, cookie retreival and maintenance, and so forth.   
HTTPSocket doesn't seem to do the deed as transparently as I would like.

I was inclined to rewrite the code in Smalltalk, and it occurred to  
me that so much of this has already been done in Curl, that it may  
make much more sense to build a plugin to the three or so simple  
calls necessary to do synchronous data requests.  Accordingly, I'm  
more inclined to write the plugin, and wrap it in a pretty package  
for general use.

Has anybody trodden down this road before?  Any thoughts about the  
benefits/utility/downsides of building the libcurl plugin?




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