Re: Gnome VFS - plans for Gnome 2.8

[Walter Landry <wlandry ucsd edu>]

Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:02, Dan Winship wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 07:08, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > > On Enj , 2004-03-25 at 11:19 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > Since libsoup
> > > is going to be used by so many things anyway, it only makes sense to use
> > > it also.
> > 
> > And also just because libsoup is a GNOME library, so it integrates more
> > nicely with other GNOME stuff than neon would. (It uses GObjects, it
> > uses the glib main loop when you're using async mode, etc.)
> 
> Does is support webdav? ssl? is it threadsafe? Is it well tested on all
> sorts of web/webdav servers?

As I understand it, Neon only supports ssl through openssl, not
gnutls.  That kind of makes it useless for GPL'd projects.  Libsoup
claims to be able to use Mozilla's NSS.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry ucsd edu