[racket-dev] net/url and https

Two minutes ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> 
> 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.

Heh, I just thought about a way to do that, which is likely what
you're thinking of:

  * `net/url-unit' and `net/url-sig' stay the same.  Code that uses
    them works as before.

  * `net/url' becomes the (non-unit, of course) library that does
    dispatching over "https" with an ssl connection.

This might work, but would be very odd.  Specifically, the description
of `net/url-unit' will need to mumble something about creating a
result that is *not* like `net/url' in that there is no such dispatch.

Backwards compatible, but IMO very ugly.  But perhaps it's worth it?

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