Re: SimpleWebKit

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 23 Apr 2007, at 09:13, hns@computer.org wrote:

> > Can't we have anything for GNUstep?  I'd really like to see how  
> > this is
> > coming out but I don't have a Mac!  Whatever happened to Vespucci,  
> > the web
> > browser that was posted to the Wiki a few weeks ago?  It seemed  
> > interesting
> > but the download link wasn't working.
>
> Some Patience please...
>
> We are happy that it works so far and now we have to dig out why it
> works on the Mac and partially on mySTEP but not on GNUstep some issue
> with NSURLConnection).

Possibly simply that nobody has implemented http download using it  
yet (it's been on the task list for quite a while, but nobody has  
volunteered).
Without going back to check, my recollection is that mySTEP has a  
skeletal implementation implementation of the recent macOS-X URL  
handling classes with most methods doing nothing, but with just  
enough implemented to download simple xml pages, while gnustep has a  
more complete implementation (for example the code for basic and  
digest authentication is present and working in GNUstep and used by  
NSURLHandl) but misses the functionality to actually make  
NSURLConnection work.  Most likely copying a little bit of download  
logic from mySTEP would be sufficient to get it working.

Alternatively the SimpleWebKit code could just use NSURL or  
NSURLHandle to download stuff ... a quick fix, but it would be better  
to enhance gnustep.