[squeak-dev] Re: Nuking OldSocket, OldSimpleClientSocket and HTTPSocket

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at angband.za.org
Mon Jul 12 09:18:58 UTC 2010


On 2010/07/12 09:03, Enrico Spinielli wrote:
> Hi,
> now that I try to update to trunk (from behind an authentication proxy)
> after a short while I get a debug window with
>
>     Error: Could not access http://spurce.squeak.org/trunk
                                      ^^^^^^
Did you type out the above by hand? Or, is "spurce" a typo in typing out 
the error message, or a typo in a preference?

frank

>
>
> The problem seems to originate in MCHttpRepository>>allFileNames
> where the call to HTTPSocket httpGet:args:user:passwd:
> does not succeed.
>
> I retried my initialization for web
>
>     HTTPSocket useProxyServerNamed: 'xyz.zy.yz.zyx' port: xyzy
>     proxyUser: 'xxx' password: 'yyyyyyy'.
>     HTTPSocket httpShowGif:
>     'http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif'.
>
> but it now fails.
>
> Do I have to download .mcz manually from squeak source? Any hints?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Bye
> Enrico
> PS: I was/am at update 10282
>
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 23:20, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de
> <mailto:andreas.raab at gmx.de>> wrote:
>
>     On 6/18/2010 12:47 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>
>         I'm also starting to wonder if one couldn't retain an
>         *extremely* simple
>         HTTPSocket implementation that doesn't deal with anything
>         complicated
>         (i.e., no proxy support, no redirect, no auth, just the simplest
>         possible case) and have a more fully fledged client handle the more
>         complicated uses. (the idea is mainly to keep MC working for the
>         bootstrap cases where you can assume a simplified environment)
>
>
>     All right, the deed is done :-) The commit message didn't show since
>     it's been too big but you can find it here:
>
>     http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/packages/2010-July/003526.html
>
>     In addition the latest version of WebClient now registers itself
>     with HTTPSocket so that if you load WebClient it will provide the
>     implementation for HTTPSocket requests.
>
>     Please note that there's potential for breakage since the rewrite
>     was quite significant. If you notice anything that's broken please
>     report the issues here.
>
>     Cheers,
>       - Andreas
>
>
>
>
> --
> Enrico Spinielli
> "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"— Philip K. Dick
> "Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."—Mitchel Resnick
>
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