[Pharo-project] About HTTP
Hi guys I'm writing with olivier a chapter for the seaside book on REST and olivier uses curl to analyse the contents of request and answers and I would like to see if we can do it in Pharo. Now can I run zinc in another image and spy the requests? Stef
On 01 Jul 2011, at 17:52, stephane ducasse wrote:
Hi guys
I'm writing with olivier a chapter for the seaside book on REST and olivier uses curl to analyse the contents of request and answers and I would like to see if we can do it in Pharo. Now can I run zinc in another image and spy the requests?
Stef
curl is a command line http (it also supports some other protocols) client. it does not spy on conversations between other parties. curl is indeed very handy to quickly try out rest calls. using the Zn clients you can do almost anything that curl does. the fact that you have the whole Smalltalk functonality (IDE + language) will make it much more fun. furthermore, it is quite easy to add some extra functionality to make it super handy to talk to a specific REST host, transparently parsing and generating JSON with specific conventions or handling certain type of authorization/authentication. but this is often slightly too specific to turn into a general client. anyway, we're doing it all the time (and are using curl as well). sven
Tx I will look at ZnClient and see if I understand. Stef On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
On 01 Jul 2011, at 17:52, stephane ducasse wrote:
Hi guys
I'm writing with olivier a chapter for the seaside book on REST and olivier uses curl to analyse the contents of request and answers and I would like to see if we can do it in Pharo. Now can I run zinc in another image and spy the requests?
Stef
curl is a command line http (it also supports some other protocols) client. it does not spy on conversations between other parties.
curl is indeed very handy to quickly try out rest calls.
using the Zn clients you can do almost anything that curl does. the fact that you have the whole Smalltalk functonality (IDE + language) will make it much more fun.
furthermore, it is quite easy to add some extra functionality to make it super handy to talk to a specific REST host, transparently parsing and generating JSON with specific conventions or handling certain type of authorization/authentication. but this is often slightly too specific to turn into a general client.
anyway, we're doing it all the time (and are using curl as well).
sven
curl -i http://localhost:8080/DateOfTheDay|more Stef On Jul 4, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
On 02 Jul 2011, at 12:15, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
Tx I will look at ZnClient and see if I understand.
If this is not a sensitive API, you could give me some of the curl calls that you did, and I will quickly translate them to Zinc.
Sven
On 05 Jul 2011, at 00:05, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
ZnClient get: 'http://localhost:8080/DateOfTheDay' Sven
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