[ANN] Monticello + HTTPS

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Sun Feb 4 11:13:56 UTC 2007


2007/2/3, Avi Bryant <avi at dabbledb.com>:
> On 2/3/07, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Thanks to the Curl Plugin [1] there is now a Monticello add-on that
> > supports https [2]. Well actually it supports FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS,
> > SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP (check the curl homepage
> > [3] for a full list).

Danil Osipchuk is probably more qualified to answer your questions but ...

> Very cool.  Is the Curl Plugin non-blocking yet?

When I download a big file the image still reacts.

> How stable/complete
> is it?

The project page says
> only limited part of 'easy' interface is currently implemented

But to me all the important parts are there (uploading + downloading +
user/password + proxy).
What I havent't tested yet is posting form-data over http (for
SqueakMap releases from SqueakSource.

As for stability, I didn't have a problem yet.

> If it's starting to see real-world use like this, then I
> believe I owe a bounty on it.

Must find more uses for Curl Plugin ..... ;)

Cheers
Philippe


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