Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Ryan Bloom
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 05:45 pm, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > I'm still in favor of apr-client. If we want to rename the top-level CVS > > directory at some point, then fine... > > Okay, assuming the APR PMC wants to take it on as a responsibility. I'll check this, and report back the resul

Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Roy T. Fielding
> I'm still in favor of apr-client. If we want to rename the top-level CVS > directory at some point, then fine... Okay, assuming the APR PMC wants to take it on as a responsibility. Roy

Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 04:22:46PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >... > > Nah. This has utility outside of httpd. Specifically, Subversion is an > > excellent candidate. I also know that Covalent has a similar library that > > they use internally ("apua", I believe). So that is candidate #2. And t

Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Roy T. Fielding
> Independent of httpd effectively means APR. I guess you could be an httpd > subproject, but this has nothing to do with an HTTP server. > > [ there is no way the board would establish a new PMC for this, speaking as > one of those board members :-) ] I don't see why. I don't believe umbrell

Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 04:15:30PM -0700, Aaron Bannert wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 03:52:18PM -0700, Greg Stein wrote: > > > FWIW, flood in httpd-test already has 80% of what Sander suggested. > > > > Sander and I already talked about stealing code from flood and mod_proxy. :-) > > *ahem*

Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Ryan Bloom
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 04:22 pm, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > > And, in discussions with Roy, I think he was thinking a client > > > library should be a part of httpd not APR. But, I don't care > > > one way or another. -- justin > > > > Nah. This has utility outside of httpd. Specifically

Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Ryan Bloom
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 03:21 pm, Greg Stein wrote: > Umm... Ryan... *what* are you talking about? :-) Ooops, you're right. I misremembered the uri parsing stuff. My fault. Ryan __ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL

Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Roy T. Fielding
> > And, in discussions with Roy, I think he was thinking a client > > library should be a part of httpd not APR. But, I don't care > > one way or another. -- justin > > Nah. This has utility outside of httpd. Specifically, Subversion is an > excellent candidate. I also know that Covalent has a

Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 03:52:18PM -0700, Greg Stein wrote: > > FWIW, flood in httpd-test already has 80% of what Sander suggested. > > Sander and I already talked about stealing code from flood and mod_proxy. :-) *ahem* ;) In all seriousness, I think we've already got most of the code we want.

Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 03:33:12PM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 03:21:42PM -0700, Greg Stein wrote: > > But that said, I'm am a BIG +1 on adding an http client library into the > > ASF's APR project. Whether people want that to go into apr-util or into a > > new apr-cl

Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:14:05PM +0200, Sander Striker wrote: > Hi all, > > I wish to propose a new library: apr-client. btw, I'm +1 on all points in here. Sander and I talked about this quite a bit last night over IRC. I'm hoping for a general go ahead, a creation of a STATUS and or roadmap/d

Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 03:21:42PM -0700, Greg Stein wrote: > But that said, I'm am a BIG +1 on adding an http client library into the > ASF's APR project. Whether people want that to go into apr-util or into a > new apr-client, I'm not too concerned. FWIW, flood in httpd-test already has 80% of

Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Greg Stein
Umm... Ryan... *what* are you talking about? :-) I do not recall ever discussing a client library in there. Nor as a motivation for APRUTIL. I'm happy to be disproved on that :-), but I'd rather see a separate library started for this. An http client library is a big chunk of code. I just counte

Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Ryan Bloom
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 02:14 pm, Sander Striker wrote: There is supposed to be an http client library as a part of apr-util. It's just that nobody has actually written it yet. I would prefer to not create another library for this, because this client lib was one of the reasons that apr-u

[PROPOSAL] apr-client

2001-09-26 Thread Sander Striker
Hi all, I wish to propose a new library: apr-client. It is basically a http client library. I see a direct use for at least three projects: - mod_proxy (which has most of the code in it), - flood (to do more flexible testing, for example with authentication, or even ssl client auth),