[squeak-dev] HttpClient is intended to be used for...

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 09:25:08 UTC 2019


http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2275
says that since 2015 WebClient should be used instead of HttpClient.

What is the background information for this?

On 1/21/19, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> WebClient/ZnClient wrapper
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3863
>
> On 1/21/19, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A good question:
>>
>> Versions 3.2, 3.6, 3.8, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 all have HTTPClient.
>> e.g http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6569
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3747 is a good place to put a summary of
>> this question and discussion ....
>>
>> There should also be discussion about a wrapper object so that Zn
>> (Pharo classes) based code may be executed in Squeak. I think there is
>> some code with which this was started.
>>
>> --Hannes
>>
>>
>> On 1/19/19, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Hi Tim,
>>>
>>>> On 19.01.2019, at 07:13, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ... what exactly? There's no class comment to help out.
>>>>
>>>> So far as I can work out it seems to be partially a proxy for working
>>>> out
>>>> if the image is running in a web browser (can we do that these days? I
>>>> was
>>>> under the impression that was no longer doable with current browsers)
>>>> and
>>>> partially a sort of shim for some network-file-fetching-putting that
>>>> would
>>>> be different if actually running in a browser.
>>>>
>>>> If we can't do the browser thing we probably ought to clean out the
>>>> related code.
>>>
>>> Sorry for the nitpick, but do you mean HTTPClient or HttpClient?
>>> I see only the former in my trunk image but remember that there's been
>>> some
>>> package somewhere that has the latter…
>>> Best regards
>>> 	-Tobias
>>>
>>>>
>>>> tim
>>>> --
>>>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>>>> "bOtHeR" said Pooh, mistaking the LSD tablet for aspirin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>


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