Re: SimpleWebKit

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 23.04.2007 um 10:56 schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald:

> Possibly simply that nobody has implemented http download using it  
> yet (it's been on the task list for quite a while, but nobody has  
> volunteered).
> Without going back to check, my recollection is that mySTEP has a  
> skeletal implementation implementation of the recent macOS-X URL  
> handling classes with most methods doing nothing, but with just  
> enough implemented to download simple xml pages, while gnustep has  
> a more complete implementation (for example the code for basic and  
> digest

It fully implements the file:// and http:// and https:// schemes.  
Missing is https:// (but only because it is also missing in the lower  
layer NSStream) and cookie management, authentication and the  
NSURLCache (which is quite independent) and some HTTP protocol  
specifics like compression and keeping the connection open. But the  
latter was no problem on the low number of servers tested so far. So,  
even if something is missing, it includes everything needed for  
SimpleWebKit to download web pages like gnustep.org.

> authentication is present and working in GNUstep and used by  
> NSURLHandl) but misses the functionality to actually make  
> NSURLConnection work.  Most likely copying a little bit of download  
> logic from mySTEP would be sufficient to get it working.
>
> Alternatively the SimpleWebKit code could just use NSURL or  
> NSURLHandle to download stuff ... a quick fix, but it would be  
> better to enhance gnustep.

NSURLHandle is deprecated in 10.4 and everything of SimpleWebKit is  
built and tested agaist NSURLConnection's API... And, WebKit requires  
a working implementation of NSURLRequest and NSURLResponse across  
most classes to provide callbacks to the web browsers. I don't see  
how NSURLHandle can easily provide these.

So it appears that you should follow the reverse path: add some  
little bit of authentication from GNUstep to the mySTEP classes...

-- hns