On 30/03/11 19.19, BlazingWhitester wrote:
On 2011-03-30 17:48:59 +0300, Jonas Drewsen said:
On 30/03/11 03.04, Max Klyga wrote:
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Great to see that you're interested in improving the Phobos library!
There already is some work being done on this.
I've created bindings for libcurl that was accepted into Phobos a
couple of days ago (see etc.c.curl module). This is the foundation of
some network client classes that I'm doing. I intent to submit this to
Phobos when I've implemented the last of the suggestions that I
received from the community earlier.
Could you give links to that suggestions?
Look for threads in this newsgroup that I started and that have curl or
libcurl in the title.
Is your work on network-clients avaliable online?
Yes. I haven't pushed my working copy for some time but you can see an
older version in the link I provided (see below).
My initial target is FTP and HTTP
support.
See:
https://github.com/jcd/phobos/blob/curl/etc/curl.d
This does have some overlap with your proposal but that doesn't have
to be a bad thing.
If this proposal gets accepted you have the libcurl bindings already
as a kickstart.
Some other options are to extend the client classes that I'm doing. Or
to implement the network server classes.
RFC compilant HTTP-server is very hard to implement, so one solution
might be to implement different protocol clients (SMTP, ...) so our work
will not overlap.
Actually I believe that a RFC compliant HTTP-server implementation with
only mandatory features is not that hard to do. That would provide a
good starting point for future improvements.
But my initial thoughts on server classes was not HTTP specific though.
It was more like a general server network framework. This framework
could in turn be used to create a HTTP server if somebody wanted that.
/Jonas
