Since there are a lot of modifications of HWS around now, it seems to be worthwhile to combine the efforts. E.g. I adapted the HWS adaption provided by WASH http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~thiemann/WASH/#wsp for my needs. For instance in Request.hs I removed the call to 'Network.URI.unEscapeString' (which is 'deHex' in fptools/HWS/Request.hs, but 'deHex' is 'id') because that affects interpretation of CGI parameters. I also think that this package needs some cleanup and Cabal.
What about a darcs repository at http://darcs.haskell.org/ ?
I agree its worthwhile to combine efforts. My only concern is to maintain the code quality. The original HWS was written quite well. The plugins extension I found was not of the same code quality. I haven't looked at the WASH modifications, so I don't know how they compare. I dont know much about using the haskell.org repository, but I'd be happy to contribute to it if there was an HWS repository there... Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/