Binary parsing: binary-strict now has support for combinator parsing[1] with <|> and friends. This works both for the strict Get and the IncrementalGet. (The latter was more complex than I expected) binary-strict also gained a very fast byte set module[2] (used for scanning ranges of valid bytes) and a surprisingly useful hexDump[3] function (because I kept having to write it in lots of places) [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/binary-strict/0.3.0/doc/html/Dat... [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/binary-strict/0.3.0/doc/html/Dat... [3] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/binary-strict/0.3.0/doc/html/Dat... DNS: network-dns contains a DNS client library[4] in pure Haskell. The ADNS library (for which a wrapper already exists) is GPL, not BSD. This code is also halfway to being a DNS server should anyone so wish. This is very similar to the DNS client library in libevent (because I wrote them both). HTTP: ctemplate is a wrapping of the template library which Google uses for most of their sites. There are several template systems already in Hackage, but I like ctemplate because escaping is so easy and well supported. Generally the power of a template system doesn't interest me (in fact, it can be a bad thing), but stopping XSS attacks is a big deal. HsOpenSSL now has rudimentary support for writing SSL servers[5] (clients coming soon). In terms of blocking IO, this /should/ work the way you would hope (i.e. like a Haskell function w.r.t. forkIO). network-minihttp is a small HTTP server. Currently it serves files from the disk (with caching and range support), but it's most of the way to being a HTTP client also. Don't do anything too serious with it yet, however. It needs a few limits to stop DoS attackers from, for example, sending an infinite header and using up all the memory :) [4] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/network-dns/0.1.1/doc/html/Netwo... -- Adam Langley agl@imperialviolet.org http://www.imperialviolet.org 650-283-9641