Even if we fix HTTPSocket (and I have added a couple fixes for 3.9 to allow it to get things like css files), we still don't have https without doing an openssl plugin or writing our own ssl socket layer in Smalltalk.  The plugin makes more sense - and since we are already doing a plugin - we might as well get the most capability from it that we can.  

I've certainly got some uses for it and look forward to its release.

-Todd Blanchard

On Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 02:43PM, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:

>2006/9/13, Avi Bryant <avi.bryant at gmail.com>:
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>> On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:47 PM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
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>> > 2006/9/13, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
>> >>  HTTPSocket authentication needs to be completely reworked.
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>> > Not only authentication, everything. The whole class is just awful.
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>> Hence my interest in a libCURL plugin...
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>Which is just the confession that HTTPSocket will not be fixed.
>Otherwise there would be no need for libCURL, the protocols would be
>implemented in Squeak and work wherever Squeak works.
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>Philippe
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