On 3/17/06, A.M. Kuchling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thought: We should drop all of httplib, urllib, urllib2, and ftplib,
> and instead adopt some third-party library for HTTP/FTP/whatever,
> write a Python wrapper, and use it instead. (The only such library I
> know of is libcurl, but doubtless
A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> Good idea? Dumb idea?
I have no idea about urllib, but httplib certainly should stay,
and its bugs should get fixed (and will get fixed, over time).
It is very easy to write a httplib application, since you can
follow its source code. It would be much more complicated to
u
Thought: We should drop all of httplib, urllib, urllib2, and ftplib,
and instead adopt some third-party library for HTTP/FTP/whatever,
write a Python wrapper, and use it instead. (The only such library I
know of is libcurl, but doubtless there are other candidates; see
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
