11 Sep
2012
11 Sep
'12
2:27 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Ganesh Sittampalam
There's http-conduit, which also doesn't support String, but does support https and has a much cleaner interface. If conduit ever made it into the Platform then it would be an obvious choice to replace HTTP; but I still have some faith in lazy IO which is one of the reasons why I put effort into the HTTP package.
As an aside, the major reason I support HTTP over something like http-conduit is the latter's titanic dependency list. I think especially as a dependency of cabal-install that's something of a dealbreaker: $ cabal install http-conduit | grep 'new package' | wc -l [...] 47