[squeak-dev] HttpClient is intended to be used for...

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 09:21:46 UTC 2019


WebClient/ZnClient wrapper
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3863

On 1/21/19, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> A good question:
>
> Versions 3.2, 3.6, 3.8, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 all have HTTPClient.
> e.g http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6569
>
>
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3747 is a good place to put a summary of
> this question and discussion ....
>
> There should also be discussion about a wrapper object so that Zn
> (Pharo classes) based code may be executed in Squeak. I think there is
> some code with which this was started.
>
> --Hannes
>
>
> On 1/19/19, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>>> On 19.01.2019, at 07:13, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> ... what exactly? There's no class comment to help out.
>>>
>>> So far as I can work out it seems to be partially a proxy for working
>>> out
>>> if the image is running in a web browser (can we do that these days? I
>>> was
>>> under the impression that was no longer doable with current browsers)
>>> and
>>> partially a sort of shim for some network-file-fetching-putting that
>>> would
>>> be different if actually running in a browser.
>>>
>>> If we can't do the browser thing we probably ought to clean out the
>>> related code.
>>
>> Sorry for the nitpick, but do you mean HTTPClient or HttpClient?
>> I see only the former in my trunk image but remember that there's been
>> some
>> package somewhere that has the latter…
>> Best regards
>> 	-Tobias
>>
>>>
>>> tim
>>> --
>>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>>> "bOtHeR" said Pooh, mistaking the LSD tablet for aspirin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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