HTTP and character encodings

[Vincent Hanquez]

On 09/11/2012 09:45 PM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> I also hesitate to depend on packages with very many dependencies - although I 
> write such packages myself. Chances are high that one of the imported packages 
> fails to compile on a certain system or compiler version.
>

I suppose if more stuff were in the platform, that would make it less likely though.

>
>> For example, the whole haskell TLS stack is responsible for at least 10~15 
>> packages in http-conduit's list.
>
> I haven't checked whether it is possible, but maybe there are ways to let the 
> user plug in the TLS functionality if he needs it. Then conduit-http would not 
> need to depend on it.

I think it depends on how much control you need on the stack. For simple use, 
"open a TLS socket and give me a raw bytestream", it's possible. I believe 
that's how people use HTTP with HsOpenSSL. I think a great deal of possibilities 
is lost with this approach.

-- 
Vincent