Hi all, I was looking into what would be required to add socks proxy support to apt (bug #744934), and I found that the HTTP and HTTPS acquire methods are implemented completely differently. Am I right in thinking that making libcurl a dependency of the HTTP and FTP transports would not be acceptable? Or some other networking library? I can't find any previous discussion on this. Pros: Reduced code in apt. Possibly easier to share code between HTTP and HTTPS methods. Looking ahead, features like HTTP 2 might be easier to add via curl. Cons: Increased size of base system. Possibly performance? Kind regards, -- Tim Retout <diocles@debian.org>
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