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author | Dan Winship <danw@src.gnome.org> | 2003-12-22 18:49:49 +0000 |
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committer | Dan Winship <danw@src.gnome.org> | 2003-12-22 18:49:49 +0000 |
commit | d7d5cd0277c5dbdbf66079203ac83b7f51241aa1 (patch) | |
tree | 73c796f3dabe56fc5290264382a42f48ae3cf828 | |
parent | 3ec7d96d9a5cdfb954c16add7e7dbc2c6749ae2c (diff) | |
download | libsoup-d7d5cd0277c5dbdbf66079203ac83b7f51241aa1.tar.gz |
Update these
* README, TODO: Update these
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-rw-r--r-- | README | 20 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | TODO | 48 |
3 files changed, 45 insertions, 27 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2003-12-22 Dan Winship <danw@ximian.com> + * README, TODO: Update these + +2003-12-22 Dan Winship <danw@ximian.com> + * libsoup/soup-socket.c: Lots of thread-safety stuff, primarly so you can disconnect a socket from one thread while doing I/O in another. @@ -1,21 +1,21 @@ -Libsoup is an HTTP library implementation in C. It was originally part -of a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementation called Soup, but -the SOAP and non-SOAP parts have now been split into separate packages. +Soup is an HTTP library implementation in C. It was originally part of +a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementation, but most of the +SOAP code has since been removed. -libsoup uses the Glib main loop and is designed to work well with GTK +Soup uses the Glib main loop and is designed to work well with GTK applications. This enables GNOME applications to access HTTP servers on the network in a completely asynchronous fashion, very similar to the Gtk+ programming model (a synchronous operation mode is also supported for those who want it). +Soup also contains code to implement an HTTP/1.1 server. + Features: - * Completely Asynchronous - * Connection cache - * HTTP chunked transfer support - * HTTP, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5 authenticated proxy support - * SSL Support using OpenSSL or GnuTLS + * (Optionally) completely asynchronous + * Automatically caches connections + * SSL Support using GnuTLS + * Proxy support, including authentication and SSL tunneling * Client support for Digest, NTLM, and Basic authentication - * HTTP server * Server support for Digest and Basic authentication To subscribe to the Soup discussion list, send mail with the word @@ -1,36 +1,50 @@ TODO: ==== -* Thread safety +* Thread safety (started) -* Support M-POST +* Documentation (API, tutorial) -* Documentation +* Use gconf for config data (especially proxy info) -* Tutorial Documentation +* Bring back WSDL compiler from old soup module? -* Simple Soap Example clients and servers (time, updates, terraserver, ...) +* Bring back SOCKS support? -* Auto-detect SOCKS version +* Bring back CGI server support? (Split SoupServer into SoupServerTCP + and SoupServerCGI) -* Use gconf for config data +* Handle gzip Content-Encoding -* Handle gzip transfer encoding +* Add a SoupMessageFilter implementation to handle cookies (RFC 2965) -* UDDI support +* Add a SoupMessageFilter implementation to handle caching (rcd has + some of the logic for this already). -* Disco support +* More regression tests -* DIME support +* Add apache config files to tests/ so that apache can be run locally + to run regression tests against -* SOAP Routing Protocol serializer wrappers +* Merge soup-server-auth.c with the client auth implementation. + Likewise, make soup-server-message.c less of a hack. -* Simple POP and SMTP engine. +* User-Agent handling: caller should specify a User-Agent string to + SoupSession, and soup should automatically append libsoup/#.## to + that. (Likewise for Server/Via headers.) -* libcamel integration for POP or IMAP +* Explicit range support (?) -* Handle SOAP Attachments in HTTP and SMTP (use gmime) +* NTLM Proxy-Authentication support, GSS-Negotiate support -* C++ wrapper +* Pipelining -* GTK or Bonobo object generation + +Known bugs: +========== + +* Digest auth does not support qop="auth-int" (both client and server) + +* Trailers in chunked responses are not handled + +* simple-proxy is not very RFC compliant |