Making cabal-install SSL capable

[Mikhail Glushenkov]

Hi,

On 4 May 2015 at 08:31, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
> Just a little update on this. I pinged the author of publicsuffixlist
> (necessary for proper cookie domain handling) about removing the
> data-default dependency, and after discussion we decided to just merge the
> code into http-client instead. With that change, the full dependency list
> for http-client-openssl is in fact smaller that http-streams:

I think we would accept a patch making cabal-install depend on
http-client or http-streams if it was enabled with a flag.
Refactorings required to make this work would also make it simpler to
add support for curl/wget/whatever.