On Dec 10, 2007 10:43 AM, Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
Dean Michael Berris wrote:
Hi Jeff!
On Dec 10, 2007 10:32 AM, Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
Michael Dickey wrote:
So.. I decided to throw all this out there and see what people think. Should Boost have its own HTTP library, or should it be part of an more comprehensive network protocol library?
Yes, it should have an HTTP library -- it would be nice if there were other protocols, but not essential.
I have the same feeling, but then other protocols are becoming increasingly more and more important as the web matures -- XMPP is lurking to be the next generation IM/Messaging protocol, (E)SMTP is not going away for Email anytime soon, and FTP is still very popular. Maybe having a torrent client library might not be essential, though if there's enough interest then it may just be the next generation fail-safe P2P storage protocol -- or I might be dreaming too much. ;)
I didn't mean to 'dis' the importance of the other protocols. What I meant to say is that if we try to bring an entire suite as one library, in one review, it will a) take a long time, and b) be hard to manage. So I'd rather see them come as smaller contributions -- perhaps within a shared framework boost::net or whatever.
Ah, yes. Now that makes sense to me. As to doing it by piece meal (HTTP first, then SMTP next perhaps) maybe we'd get more mileage. :)
If Mike already has an HTTP client library we can retro-fit to work with the cpp-netlib basic_message<> implementation, then I think we don't have to re-invent the wheel as far as an HTTP client implementation goes -- and cpp-netlib 1.0 might just be around the corner once we document it properly and get it tested up to Boost standards.
Looks to me like Mike is focused on the server side...so maybe there's not much overlap anyway.
Too bad... That doesn't change though, cpp-netlib will be focused on the client side. Insights from the libpion implementation may help though, especially with HTTP 1.0/1.1 implementation details. -- Dean Michael C. Berris Software Engineer, Friendster, Inc. [http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/] [mikhailberis@gmail.com] [+63 928 7291459] [+1 408 4049523]