[racket-dev] net/url and https

I appreciate the conscientiousness about backward-compatibility here, 
but, as a data point of one developer, I would be happy to incur the 
backward-incompatibility of option #1 in exchange for getting rid of the 
Cookbook HTTPS hack sooner rather than later.

I also think that Eli's option #1 could be done without breaking 
backward-compatibility, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort in code 
and documentation, and I don't want to discourage him moving forward 
with #1 by making the task harder than it has to be.

(Full disclosure: Breaking backward-compatibility in the option #1 way 
would generate approx. one billable hour of consulting work for me.  
Just to edit some "require" forms, quickly inspect the call sites with 
Emacs grep, test, and remove a Cookbook hack file from the CM branch.)

Thanks for tackling this, Eli.

Robby Findler wrote at 06/19/2011 06:26 PM:
> I think we should not remove anything from the net/url library
> (including the unitized interface) as I believe that will break old
> code.
>   

> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 1. Looking at the code, there are only two tcp functions used
>>   (`tcp-connect' and `tcp-abandon-port'), so eliminating the unit
>>   interface and just hooking things up so that an "https" scheme uses
>>   the ssl functions is relatively easy.
>>     

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