[REBOL] Re: better post, get, cookie support?
From: gchiu:compkarori at: 28-Aug-2002 8:23
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:39:05 -0700 (PDT)
"Ed O'Connor" <[rebologue--yahoo--com]> wrote:
>Bake your own cookie management system
>Negotiate POST/GET transactions
>Trap/manage redirects
>Set the USER-AGENT, encoding types, etc.
>Handle http uploads
>Https and ftp
>
>The list of needs are pretty attainable and
>well-defined. I think it would help RT to sew this up
>a bit better so that it is a key feature. But since
>they are busy inventing the future, it would be
>extremely beneficial to the Rebol if a standard script
>or proxy mode were made available by some of the
>CGI/http/networking gurus on this list. Then
>spidery-apps and dashboards like Watson would be
>attainable by nearly anyone with /View and a keyboard.
>
>How popular might a solid kit like this be? Try VERY.
>I mean, does anyone really want to muck around with Tk
>and Perl for this sort of thing?
To get round the limitations of Rebol in this respect, I
use cURL, and build cURL scripts dynamically using
View/Pro which I then call.
However, I still have not been able to log onto hotmail (
which uses https ). :(
--
Graham Chiu
