It seems to me like in AOLServer 4, we have four ways for Tcl code to
behave as an HTTP client. Has anybody done any compare & contrast on
them? As far as I can tell without a lot of code experience on some of
them, we have:
ns_http{open,get,post}
Generally synchronous
Only supports GET and POST
Only supports BASIC auth
No proxy support
No SSL (https) support
Implemented entirely in Tcl
Best compatibility (available in AOLServer 2 - 4)
Built-in
Only usable from a single thread (no channel/socket passing)
ns_http (http://panoptic.com/wiki/aolserver/Ns_http)
Supports asynchronous operation
Supports all methods
Only supports BASIC auth
No proxy support
No SSL (https) support
Implemented largely in C
Available only in AOLServer 4 and above
Built-in
Only usable from a single thread (no channel/socket passing)
Tcl's HTTP package (the one I know the least about)
Supports asynchronous operation with progress callbacks
Supports GET, POST, and HEAD
Not obvious how to use any authentication other than BASIC
Supports proxy on a per-call basis (but you're responsible for .pac
translation if necessary).
Supports TLS/SSL (via callback)
Somewhat more complicated API to use than the above options
Built-in since Tcl 7?
TclCurl
(http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/docs.html)
Supports asynchronous operation
Supports GET and POST, not clear about others but don't look
supported
Supports BASIC, DIGEST, GSS-Negotiate, NTLM
Supports proxy on a per-call basis (but you're responsible for .pac
translation if necessary)
Implemented in C
Requires packaging work (bringing it into your Tcl & AOLServer
build)
Multi-threading requires config / build - time work (c-ares)
Passing handle between threads requires wrapping in your own mutex
Supports FTP, telnet, other common URLs
Substantially more complicated API to use than the other options
So, for example, if I want to communicate with a RESTful application
(i.e., uses PUT, DELETE, etc) over HTTPS, it looks like there is no
option. Of course, most such applications also provide a POST wrapper,
but didn't the way-back Navi/AOLServer team have a solution for this?
Thanks --
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] nsdci query
I think the ns_http bug was fixed in the HEAD by Nate.
On Oct 23, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Tom Jackson wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> I have ns_http working, at least for me here with binary data.
> Supposedly this
> is the reason for ns_http (not ns_httpget/post or ns_httpsget/post):
>
> Here is a script:
>
> set id [ns_http queue http://192.168.1.102:8000/sns-thumb.jpg]
>
> set ok [ns_http wait -result image -status status $id]
>
> if {"$status" == "200"} {
> set fd [open [file join [file dirname [info script]]
> myimage.jpg] w+]
> } else {
> ns_return $status text/html $image
> return -code return
> }
>
> # Very important:
> fconfigure $fd -translation binary
>
> puts $fd $image
>
> close $fd
>
> ns_return $status text/html "Status: $status <br>
> <a href=\"/myimage.jpg\">My Image</a>"
>
>
>
>
> On Monday 22 October 2007 18:08, Jeff Rogers wrote:
>> Dossy Shiobara wrote:
>>>> What I'm struggling with though is if I store an image file to the
>>>> sob with sob.copy and then try and retrieve it later with nsob.get,
>>>> it only returns the first 4 or 10 bytes of the file.
>>>
>>> SOB isn't encoding-aware and is actually really naive--it doesn't
>>> handle
>>> binary data well.
>>
>> Not sure if this it related, but I was just looking at ns_http for an
>> unrelated purpose and it appears that it is not binary clean at all,
>> since it uses Tcl_SetVar which expects a null-terminated string.
>> Getting binary files typically resulted in a 4 byte response,
>> could be
>> that an average jpg file has a null at byte 4.
>>
>> -J
>>
>>
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