[BUG]Scampler-Posting, Authentication, Infinite Loop

Daniel Vainsencher danielv at netvision.net.il
Wed Jul 2 18:07:00 UTC 2003


In which case, let's hope some network savvy Squeaker decides to
implement a high quality HTTPClient. Could round out all those
significant improvements in the networking area Squeak has been going
through (network rewrite, Jabber support).

Maybe one of the Comanche people wants to weight in with their
perspective on what's needed...

Daniel

Brent Vukmer <bvukmer at blackboard.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> > 
> > Note that HTTPSocket is going away - since mir's Network 
> > rewrite, the proper way to implement protocols is to use 
> > Clients. So a better direction might be to help implement the 
> > HTTPClient for the new framework in a way that can be 
> > controlled so that the problem you describe doesn't happen.
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether Michael still intends to implement 
> > HTTPClient on his own
> [snip]
> 
> FYI, I asked Michael about this a few days ago; he said:
> 
> "I took [HTTP migration to network rewrite] out as too many
> modifications and innovations are happening 
> in Comanche and Seaside in that area.  And it won't really help to just
> rewrite the HTTPSocket. The URI package 
> came out of the initial attempt to rewrite the HTTP related stuff."



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