Just a lil question: why you using curl, when you can do everything in smalltalk, using sockets?
On 1 February 2010 21:39, Lukas Renggli <reng...@gmail.com> wrote: > The curl plugin works very well and is very fast for the parts that it > is supposed to work on. > > The problem is, that it does not provide a complete API to all the > functionality of libcurl. For example, it is impossible to perform > more sophisticated operations on protocols other than HTTP (like FTP). > Worst of all, there is no way to work around this, because the plugin > provides no direct access to the few low-level functions of libcurl > (like curl_easy_setopt). Instead it wraps many (but by large not all) > possible parameter combinations into an army of rigid primitives :-( > > I guess I'll to wait for CurlAlien to come alive. > > Lukas > > On 1 February 2010 19:21, John M McIntosh > <john...@smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote: >>> The Mac CurlPlugin in mac vm is generated at the moment from an older >>> version. It is missing functions to add http headers (e.g. to >>> authenticate against GData ClientLogin) . >> >> So is that part fixed now? >> >> On 2010-02-01, at 4:38 AM, Schmidt, Marco wrote: >> >>> I began working on an Alien-Curl-Wrapper too. The main problem (for me) was >>> the missing Alien support under WIN32/LINUX. Without Alien support it is >>> easier to use the current CurlPlugin (with the changes to add header fields >>> to the http requests). A long time ago I requested the integration of these >>> changes in the squeak-vm list (see >>> http://n4.nabble.com/CurlPlugin-23-under-Linux-td276117.html#a276117)... >>> >>> Marco Schmidt >> >> -- >> =========================================================================== >> John M. McIntosh <john...@smalltalkconsulting.com> Twitter: squeaker68882 >> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com >> =========================================================================== >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> > > > > -- > Lukas Renggli > http://www.lukas-renggli.ch > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
