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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