HC (HTTPClient) released on SqueakMap

Colin Curtin alpine at umail.ucsb.edu
Fri May 14 23:09:11 UTC 2004


Actually, I had noticed just that when working through some Kom code. I'm sure a
lot of my implementation is close to that of Comanche.

That gets me thinking... :-)

Colin

Quoting Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com>:

> 
> On May 13, 2004, at 3:32 AM, Colin Curtin wrote:
> 
> > Hello to you all,
> >
> > I have built an almost* unconditionally HTTP/1.1 compliant client for 
> > Squeak
> > 3.6. It is very similar in style to Apache Jakarta's HTTPClient.
> 
> Great.
> 
> One thing I've always found odd is that it seems to be "traditional" to 
> have completely separate implementations of the HTTP protocol for use 
> on the server and client sides of the connection.  What I would like to 
> see is a core library that models HTTP requests and responses according 
> to the RFC, but that is agnostic about what they are used for - it can 
> serialize both requests and response to a stream, and parse either.  It 
> should then be easy to build either a client or server on top of this.
> 
> Avi
> 
> 
> 


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Colin Curtin
alpine at umail.ucsb.edu



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