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

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Wed Jan 30 22:53:53 UTC 2019


On Wed, 30 Jan 2019, tim Rowledge wrote:

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>> On 2019-01-21, at 1:25 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> What is the background information for this?
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> HTTPClient appears to be essentially dead, which means I'd like to remove it and avoid the cognitive load of having pointless stuff in the image that can trap the unwary.

+1

Levente

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> So far as I can tell it was a wrapper for sockets that might be actual sockets of browser-plugin-pseudo-socket-things; since we can't run in a browser any more it has no real purpose. Unless I'm wrong about the browser thing, we could clean out some cruft and simplify our socket story a bit.
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> tim
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