Read the code and all will become clear (or rather - very muddy).  Do a debug it on

'http://www.yahoo.com' asUrl retrieveContents

and trace the execution if you really want to see.
 
On Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 03:53PM, Raymond W. Lucke IV <smalltalk at raylucke.com> wrote:

>One of the things I have really appreciated during my time of  
>learning SmallTalk has been being able to just keep looking browse up  
>the chain to the low level of operations. It's also nice to not have  
>to deal with updating libCURL and OpenSSL every time they release a  
>new patch to a C buffer overflow they experience. So I second the  
>idea of implementing SSL in Squeak. I'm quite new, so what's the  
>issue with HTTPSocket aside of not supporting SSL?
>