Re: [Gnash-dev] remoting

[strk]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:13:38AM -0600, Rob Savoye wrote:
> strk wrote:
> 
> >- We need to distinguish between 404 (not found) and empty responses
> >  from HTTP. IOChannel still has a get_error() method which may be
> >  used, or we may use the exception interface. If we opt for the latter
> >  we should catch on every read. What do other devels think about it ?
> 
>   Don't worry about it. When I merge libnet into Gnash to add RTMP 
> support, all the I/O handling will change. This is basically a quick a 
> dirty implementation to get the open street editor working, which needed 
> simple remoting support. Libnet also supports it's own HTTP code (client 
> side and server side), so eventually it'll replace libcurl.

I've to say I'm pretty scared about all this replacing rumors :)
Curl is a well estabilished piece of code.
IOChannel has its age know, and is well known by gnash devels.

Why would you want to replace so many things ?

--strk;