[racket-dev] [plt] Push #23903: master branch updated

I seem to recall that this has been on Eli's mind more some time and that
he has something rearing to go.

I think that is probably a good idea and that this breakage here is a bit
too dangerous.

I'll revert the commit and put a new HTTP library on my list to code and
discuss with Eli.

Jay

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu
> wrote:

> Oh, right. Pattern matching on url structs. If we want to keep that
> working (which I think we do), then that ties our hands much more.
>
> I believe there are some other crufty things in net/url (having to do
> with encodings?).
>
> Does it make sense to have a new library that does all of this right
> from the start and then announce that we're going to stop supporting
> net/url in a year or so, in favor of the new library?
>
> I see there is no net/http. so we could also do a better job with the
> whole simple-script-for-downloading-a-file-over-http and perhaps other
> things along those lines?
>
> Robby
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay at racket-lang.org>
> wrote:
> > I thought about that too since there are few instances where people
> pattern
> > match on the URL struct. What would be a good name for the new field...
> > url-maybe-query?
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Robby Findler
> > <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't think we want to change how the current url struct selectors
> >> work when applied to url structs.
> >>
> >> You could probably get away with changing the url struct if you could
> >> provide functions that act the way the old selectors used to work --
> >> does that help?
> >>
> >> Robby
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:00 PM,  <jay at racket-lang.org> wrote:
> >> > jay has updated `master' from 6a99c93ebb to 9d8d36e568.
> >> >  http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/6a99c93ebb..9d8d36e568
> >> >
> >>
> >> >
> >> > 7f9818b Jay McCarthy <jay at racket-lang.org> 2011-11-23 10:35
> >> > :
> >> > | This fixes 10497 and potentially breaks programs that assume the
> query
> >> > of a URL is always a list. I have fixed uses in the Web Server, which
> I
> >> > expect is the major thing affected, but much more could be. Therefore
> I am
> >> > skeptical this is a good idea just for the representation of ?. So,
> I'd like
> >> > other people to review the change and let me know if they think I
> should
> >> > revert it.
> >> > :
> >
> >
>
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