A number of people have been asking for an easy/convenient way to test Zodiac, an as yet unfinished attempt at a better (secure) socket stream, in order to support HTTPS. I uploaded a 16Mb archive with a ready made image and a Mac OS X Cog VM with the necessary plugin: http://homepage.mac.com/svc/Zodiac-Alpha-June-21-2011.zip Make sure to use the included VM called 'Pharo' by dropping the zodiac.image on it. Sven PS: Sorry, but Linux and Windows VM's don't fully work right now, I will look into this when I have more time. ------------------------------------------------------------ "Start with a plain Pharo Core 1.2.1 #12345" Gofer it squeaksource: 'ZincHTTPComponents'; package: 'Zinc-HTTP'; package: 'Zinc-Tests'; package: 'Zinc-Patch-HTTPSocket'; load. Gofer it squeaksource: 'Zodiac'; package: 'Zodiac-Core'; package: 'Zodiac-Tests'; load. Gofer it squeaksource: 'ZincHTTPComponents'; package: 'Zinc-Zodiac'; load. "Switch to the Zn Zodiac socket factory" ZnNetworkingUtils default: ZnZodiacNetworkingUtils new. "Note: all http(s) in the image will now go through Zodiac streams" "** Make sure to use a Mac OS X Cog VM with the SSL plugin **" "Run the units tests, or just try" ZnClient get: 'https://encrypted.google.com'.