On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 19:12 -0400, Arjun Guha wrote:
Aha, I knew I wasn't dreaming!
http://mult.ifario.us/p/a-short-adventure-with-simplehttp
Paul Brown posted this discussion back in February. It looks like the same thing. Has there been an update of HTTP since then?
Nope, it hasn't been updated. I'm just running a locally patched version. This is the same issue, thanks!
If someone could figure out the right fix and send it to the maintainer that'd be great. We do need a decent working pure-haskell http package. For one thing cabal-install uses the HTTP package and it has to work for downloading dozens or hundreds of packages in a single session. As an aside, cabal-install could use the Network.Browser module better, by using a single call to browse for all downloads rather than one per download. As I understand it, that'd allow it to re-use a single connection. Duncan