Re: [xml] [PATCH] Patch for https(ssl) support

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:03:09PM +0000, Bjorn Reese wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> >   Hum, if you, Igor and Marc are all 3 interested in getting it in,
> > that having it disabled by default if fine for you, and you agree on a
> > common patch, then I would apply it, unless there is strong disagreement
> > from other interested parties.
>
> I disagree, although I do not know how strongly.
>
> IMHO, libxml should not contain any transmission protocol code (HTTP
> or FTP) at all. It is wrong from an architectural point of view,
> because it mixes different functionality in the same software unit,
> and it is wrong from a practical point of view, because it the nano
> code is rather meager (and has always been insufficient for my
> purposes, so I use libcurl in combination with libxml.)

  Well it has always been sufficient for all the XML, HTML and XSLT
processing I needed. And without it xmllint and xsltproc would be quite
useless. So basic support will remain, that's sure at least.

Daniel

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