Re: Making cabal-install SSL capable

Hi, On 4 May 2015 at 08:31, Michael Snoyman wrote:

Just a little update on this. I pinged the author of publicsuffixlist (necessary for proper cookie domain handling) about removing the data-default dependency, and after discussion we decided to just merge the code into http-client instead. With that change, the full dependency list for http-client-openssl is in fact smaller that http-streams:

I think we would accept a patch making cabal-install depend on http-client or http-streams if it was enabled with a flag. Refactorings required to make this work would also make it simpler to add support for curl/wget/whatever.