James Holderness wrote on 2/23/2006, 8:06 PM:

 >
 > John Panzer wrote:
 > ...
 >
 > > I believe that most standard http libraries support https, so most
 > > likely it would 'just work'.
 >
 > I would have thought so too, but James Snell did a test of https
 > support in
 > a couple of aggregators a while back and only 3 of 10 worked. Maybe
 > it'll be
 > different for APP clients.

Do you have a reference?  I'd be interested to see how many of those 
other 7 supported HTTP Digest :).  But seriously, the fact that 7/10 of 
the aggregators didn't support https: URLs even though they're arguably 
a core Internet standard argues that it's a good idea to explicitly 
mention it in the APP.

-- 
John Panzer
Sr. Technical Manager
http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer


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