I found WebClient resonably helpful. And in Pharo1.1 WebClient loaded
with Metacello passes all tests green on Linux. In more recent version
some test related to WebSockets are failed.
I found WebClient lack of multi-domain cookie support and response
encoding problems, but working on it right now.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 20:06, Andrei Stebakov <lisper...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to find a library for Pharo/Squeak which would handle
> GET/POST requests with the ability to manage cookies and deal with
> https servers.
> The HTTPSocket that's included in Pharo doesn't have cookies support.
> I tried to find any library that handles cookies and there came up
> CurlPlugin and SWHTTPClient.
> SWHTTPClient page has a broken link to the source code
> (http://map.squeak.org/package/15f42ec1-e93e-4bcf-ab2b-6746ae9d413f).
> CurlPlugin package for Win32 that I found on the main project page
> fails most of the tests and can't retrieve any http data.
> I also found WebClient/WebServer library at
> http://www.squeaksource.com/@QY3MLGU4hU3c8qcE/2xQek_iM which also
> fails most tests after installation.
>
> I wonder what people in smalltalk community are using when they need
> to do some web scraping when they need to keep some session in
> cookies?
> What would be the best library to invest time into (I am very new to 
> Smalltalk)?
>
> Thank you,
> Andrei
>
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