Re: GIO and sockets

[Felipe Contreras <felipe contreras gmail com>]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Dan Winship <danw gnome org> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> How should applications use sockets with GIO?
>>
>> I'm interested in hostname resolution, and socket handling. If
>> possible also proxy handling.
>
> There isn't yet a good story here. See
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515973 and
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548466.
>
> One possibility that's available now is to use SoupAddress and
> SoupSocket from libsoup, and just ignore the HTTP parts of the library.
> This is what the gvfs ftp backend does (although gvfs already depended
> on libsoup anyway, so it was an easy decision to make there).

Sorry I didn't respond to this mail. I've been following those bug
reports. Thanks.

-- 
Felipe Contreras