Re: GNOME 2.0 Platform Alpha Deadline - Sep 26, 2001
- From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
 
- To: Ian McKellar <yakk eavel com>
 
- Cc: Bill Gribble <grib linuxdevel com>,	Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>,	Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>,	Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>, gnome-2-0-list gnome org,	gnome-hackers gnome org
 
- Subject: Re: GNOME 2.0 Platform Alpha Deadline - Sep 26, 2001
 
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:46:31 -0400
 
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 08:46:04AM -0700, Ian McKellar wrote:
> libwww is really evil. Its far too complex for almost everything you'll want
> to do. I would like to see gnome-http replaced in gnome-2.0 because we 
> already have some HTTP support in gnome-vfs and libxml. As far as I'm aware
> the main feature we're lacking from the HTTP support in gnome-2.0 is POST
> support. If adding this will let us drop gnome-http from the platform then
  People from Catalyst (network equipement) are using libxml nanohttp to 
save content through HTTP POST (one can also use PUT). I didn't used
it but I would trust them on this kind of stuff.
Daniel
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