Yep, that's pretty much how I see it.  Whoever can get to the work  
and finish it wins.

I have actually started integrating the SWHttpClient, implementing  
all existing web stuff on top of it, but I have a ways to go and am  
short on time now.  I could probably get it done about the first of  
the year.

I've decided I like SWHttpClient because, while it has LOT of  
classes, it is extremely well factored, does parallel fetching, and  
has proxy/auth/cookie support.

On Oct 4, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Ken Causey wrote:

> http://map.squeak.org/packagebyname/HTTPClient
>
> I'll let Todd comment on the status since if anyone is looking into  
> this
> at the current time, it is him.  His original comment that this  
> package
> was the default choice was a mistake since in fact we (the I/O  
> team) had
> never gotten so far as to make any such decision.  At the current  
> time I
> would say that anyone that cares to take the time to put together a
> solid test suite for any of the available choices (assuming they don't
> already have one) and do the work to at least enable the ability to  
> plug
> it in to the rest of the Squeak HTTP-using architecture will warrant a
> high degree of attention and support from the I/O team.
>
> Ken
>
> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 18:32 +0000, J J wrote:
>> So does anyone know the status of this?  What is Steve Waring's http
>> package?  Is it a true replacement for the HTTP system?  Is it all  
>> pure
>> squeak?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> JJ
>>
>>> From: Todd Blanchard <tblanchard at mac.com>
>>> Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers
>>> list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers
>>> list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>> CC: Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com>
>>> Subject: Web Clients (was Re: Monticello authentication methods?)
>>> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:23:29 -0700
>>>
>>> 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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