Re: [Chicken-users] proposed change to http-client

[Elf]

heh, erm, well, i didnt hear from anyone for a few hours, so i already 
committed the changes.  apologies.   theyre documented (poorly) on the wiki,
and the code should be mostly self-explanatory.  theres some new methods for
modifying request-attributes too.

-elf

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Daishi Kato wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm one of the guy who messed up the http-client.
> If nobody else is using other than two args,
> why don't we make it much simpler (http:POST req args)
> without keywords?
>
> A user who wants to customize POST method could do so using http:send-request.
>
> --daishi
>
> At Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:41:52 -0800 (PST),
> Elf wrote:
> > the POST method does not do what would normally be expected, in many cases.
> > i am proposing to keep the first two args (request/request-server and args)
> > and to keyword the rest, as well as adding an additional new arg for
> > type (eg xml, form-urlencoded, multipart, etc).  it seems from the code that
> > this was originally envisioned, and if there are no objections i will
> > implement it immediately.  i will patch any affected eggs as well, although
> > my grep through the repo shows no egg using more than the first two args.
> > the default will remain application/x-www-form-urlencoded so as not to break
> > existing apps.
> >
> > thoughts?
> >
> > -elf
> >
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