On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:00:48PM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
> Personally, I think very elaborate support for HTTP in httplib, and very
> few generalizations and abstractions in urllib* would be the "right"
> way to do it, IMO. For example, there might be the notion of an
> "http session" object where a single application request can resolve
> to multiple http requests (with redirection, authentication negotiation,
> cookies, 100 continue, implicit headers, etc).
I see.
> For compatibility, urllib* can't drop features
Leave it for py3k, then.
> and we'd need
> contributors who contribute such a refactoring
That's the hardest part.
> If applications use urllib *only* for http, and
> *only* because it has these multi-request, implicit headers
> features, something is wrong with the abstractions.
I think I agree.
Oleg.
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Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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