On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 06:44:18PM +0100, Ander Juaristi wrote: > Maybe this is not 100% related to the plugin framework, but we need a > consistent API to manipulate all stages of an HTTP request (connection > establishment, SSL/TLS handshake, SSL/TLS cert verification, etc.) in a > single place, as I once told Tim off-list. > > Have a look at #142 [0], for instance. Although it mentions HPKP, there > are other parts that would benefit from this as well. > > I was thinking of an event-based framework (e.g. plugins subscribe to > 'events' and get called when they happen). Tim, on the other hand, > prefers a data structure where you could access all the details of a > connection (e.g. something like 'wget_connection_t', with references to > 'wget_tls_t', etc.), and this data structure gets passed to plugins and > they decide what to do.
Thanks for the explanation. I would to ask, what is benefit of this event-based framework approach compared to the data structure implementation?
