Michael Rueger wrote:

> Unless somebody provides a really compelling argument why he needs these 
> methods they should be removed not just deprecated.

Apologies in so far as this update actually just came into the stream, I 
got confused with what the current update number was ;-)

But to reiterate, applications using the old methods (like HTTPSocket) 
should be ported forward and not Socket be made backward compatible a 
year after the rewrite.

Michael