[Gaim-patches] [ gaim-Patches-1072290 ] HTTP POST + SSL + XMLRPC + Cookies

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Patches item #1072290, was opened at 2004-11-24 01:01
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Category: newfeature
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) (rudd-o)
Assigned to: Nathan Walp (faceprint)
Summary: HTTP POST + SSL + XMLRPC + Cookies

Initial Comment:
Here is a patch that does several things:

a) create a new function called gaim_url_post, which
allows developers to perform a (max 16K) HTTP POST
against an HTTP server
b) extend the gaim_url_post function with SSL
capabilities, so https:// URIs can be used as well
c) implement a simple, asynchronous XML-RPC interface,
with (hopefully, as it seems from the Gaim source code)
support for HTTP Basic authentication
d) store cookies in an extremely simple settings cookie
jar, for those Web servers

These things can be very useful to e.g. plugin
developers or core Gaim developers.  Some things which
now use an ad-hoc Web interface, like the release
notification plugin, could very well be reimplemented
using an XML-RPC interface.

Apply with a lot of fuzz


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>Comment By: Nathan Walp (faceprint)
Date: 2004-11-25 10:52

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16k is an arbitrary limit, and arbitrary limits are bad.

you don't submit a patch and say "apply with a lot of fuzz",
you submit a patch that applies.  if you can't keep your
patch in sync, what makes you think we want to?

also, I don't feel the need to "fix" the release
notification plugin that isn't broken, and I don't see any
other use for this patch...we're not going to inflate the
size of gaim to add an unused API.

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