[squeak-dev] Re: Nuking OldSocket, OldSimpleClientSocket and HTTPSocket

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Sun Jul 11 13:59:52 UTC 2010


On 7/10/10 2:20 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
> On 6/18/2010 12:47 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>> I'm also starting to wonder if one couldn't retain an *extremely* simple
>> HTTPSocket implementation that doesn't deal with anything complicated
>> (i.e., no proxy support, no redirect, no auth, just the simplest
>> possible case) and have a more fully fledged client handle the more
>> complicated uses. (the idea is mainly to keep MC working for the
>> bootstrap cases where you can assume a simplified environment)
>
> All right, the deed is done :-) The commit message didn't show since 
> it's been too big but you can find it here:
>
>     http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/packages/2010-July/003526.html 
>
>
> In addition the latest version of WebClient now registers itself with 
> HTTPSocket so that if you load WebClient it will provide the 
> implementation for HTTPSocket requests.
>
> Please note that there's potential for breakage since the rewrite was 
> quite significant. If you notice anything that's broken please report 
> the issues here.
>
Any possiblity for support for https?

Lawson




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