Re: [Haskell-cafe] Connection helpers: for people interested in network code

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Adam Langley wrote:

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Bjorn Bringert wrote:

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you may want to have a look at the socket abstraction used in the HTTP package:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/HTTP/3001.0.4/doc/html/Network-S...

It would be great to get HTTPS support going!

I should have mentioned that I had seen this in the original email. I think the major problem with this interface was that it was written in the time before ByteStrings. Now that we have ByteStrings I think that it makes a lot of sense for networking to use them.

However, it shouldn't be too hard to wrap HsOpenSSL in this interface. I might try this this week. Then HTTPS should Just Work (maybe ;)

There is some (dormant?) work on bringing HTTP into the age of the ByteString. Thomas Schilling (nominolo) might be able to tell you more about it. /B