[BUG]Scampler-Posting, Authentication, Infinite Loop
Stephen Pair
stephen at pairhome.net
Wed Jul 2 20:46:24 UTC 2003
Avi Bryant wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Lex Spoon wrote:
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>>People keep refering to Comanche and Seaside, and I don't understand
>>why. The HTTPClient/HTTPSocket is a client, and these others are
>>servers. I'm pretty sure Comanche does not use HTTPSocket and is not
>>influenced by its capabilities or what it can do.
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>Well, I think the reason people talk about Comanche in this context is
>that Stephen was thinking about extracting a generic implementation of the
>HTTP protocol (both server and client) from it. It seems like there's
>probably enough overlap for this to make sense.
>
>I have no idea what Seaside has to do with anything, though :).
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>>The client is used by things like Scamper. The main thing on my list
>>for an improved HTTP client is to make a HTTPRequest class to hold the
>>URL, method (GET/PUT/POST), and any form arguments to be used. This
>>change would clean things up quite a lot and should pave the way for
>>more features.
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>... and of course there already is an HTTPRequest class as part of
>Comanche, it just needs to be able to output itself as HTTP...
>
>Stephen, do you have a status report on HTTP client work? It would be
>great to see this stuff cleaned up soon.
>
>Avi
>
I haven't started to work on it yet. I've been holding off on that
until I have a chance to get Comanche running on 3.6 with the network
rewrite. I do want release it in conjunction with 6.2 though. It
really shouldn't very difficult at all. Just a matter of finding the
time mostly.
- Stephen
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