[Haskell-cafe] Contributing to http-conduit

[Aristid Breitkreuz]

Yeah, a more combinatorial approach to making HTTP requests would be
good. So +1 for checkRedirect or anything similar.

2012/1/24 Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Myles C. Maxfield
> <myles.maxfield at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Myles C. Maxfield
>>> <myles.maxfield at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I have attached a patch to add a redirect chain to the Response
>>> > datatype.
>>> > Comments on this patch are very welcome.
>>>
>>> I thought that this isn't necessary since a client wanting to track
>>> all the redirects could just handle them manually by setting the
>>> redirect count to 0.
>>
>> It seems like a lot of work to re-implement the redirection-following code,
>> just to know which URL the bytes are coming from.  I feel that adding this
>> field makes the library easier to use, but it's your call.
>
> If that's the concern, I'd much rather just expose a function to help
> with dealing with redirects, rather than sticking a rather arbitrary
> [Ascii] in everyone's Response. I think a function along the lines of:
>
> checkRedirect :: Response -> Maybe Request
>
> would fit the bill, and could be extracted from the current `http` function.
>
> Michael
>
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