Re: HTTP and character encodings

On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:

tl;dr: I'd like to remove the String instances from the HTTP package.

The HTTP library is overloaded on the type for request and response bodies; there are instances for String and both strict and lazy Bytestrings.

This instance was also kind of broken, because it used TypeSynonymInstances without need.