Re: Calabash and http-request

--- Asketh Norman
This is either an opportunity for someone to point out why it would be
a really bad idea to add those dependencies or fair warning that the
next release will have them ... or both.
---

My oppinion is that adding these depancies and advanced features is an 
slippery slope.
If you need advanced features like cookie processing etc then you should be 
running a specialized
tool like "wget", which can be run from xproc as an external process step.
Its a slippery slope because "whats next" ? caching ? JavaScript ? ActiveX 
controls ?
AJAX ? Java applets ? Silverlight ? on and on ...
My oppinion is to keep the core functionality simple and clean and let 
people use custom external tools
for the fancy stuff.

-David

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David A. Lee
dlee@calldei.com
http://www.calldei.com 

Received on Monday, 22 December 2008 17:42:36 UTC