Good to know. Once again, I do not intend to implement this as part of the initial WebKit effort but I might approach it later.
Let me know if you (or anyone) is interested in this :) On Aug 15, 2017 12:14, "Richard Frith-Macdonald" < richardfrithmacdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 15 Aug 2017, at 14:33, Daniel Ferreira (theiostream) < > bnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone (and Richard in particular), > > > > Lately a lot of effort in getting WebKit to work has been avoiding its > > usage of the Foundation newer networking APIs (NSURLSession, > > NSURLDownload...). Does anyone plan on implementing them relatively > > soon? > > > > I believe I can get WK to work using the libsoup networking backend > > the GTK port uses, but on the medium-term it'd be nice to be able to > > use this part of the Mac port as well. Otherwise, it's a really handy > > API I really liked using in my newer applications. > > > > If nobody has a plan/interest in working on that, I might take it up > > some time from now. > > I don't know of any plans to implement the recent networking APIs (perhaps > because most code works fine with the existing APIs), but it would be > really good to have them working for use by newer apps/frameworks. > > My knowledge of the new APIs is minimal, but as far as I can tell the > basic HTTP/HTTPS network code doesn't much change/improve on what's already > in base, but the way the new API classes are structured to interact with > each other is a big improvement in flexibility for things like caching > data, pooling low level network connections to allow connection re-use, and > managing authentication and proxies. > So while it's probably not possible to implement the new APIs on top of > the old ones, it may well be possible to do much of the implementation > copying/reusing existing code. > The exception would be HTTP/2 ... the old APIs don't do it at all, so that > part of the networking code would need to be implemented either from > scratch or on top of a reliable, portable, LGPL compatible free software > library to do it (if such a thing exists). > > I think it would be great if you could implement the new APIs. > > >
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