Dropping non-machine readable ?

Hi folks,

Right now, when getting a file listing (for --search-keys), the HKP
handler in GnuPG tries to get a machine readable index from the server
(options=mr).  If it can, it uses it.  If it can't, then the handler
simulates MR by parsing the HTML returned from the server and faking
MR internally.  I'd very much like to get rid of this HTML parsing
code, as it significantly complicates the HKP handler and makes some
other potential changes (libcurl, for one) more difficult.

A quick glance at the servers in the subkeys.pgp.net rotation shows
that all but one of the servers currently support MR.  Same thing for
the wwwkeys.pgp.net rotation (the same server doesn't support MR in
both cases).  pgp.mit.edu supports MR.

Does anyone see any reason why now would be a bad time to start
deprecating the old HTML support?  I only intended to keep it until MR
was adopted and that seems to have happened.

Note that this isn't a done deal yet, and even if it does happen, it's
not happening tomorrow.  I'm thinking around a 6+ month timeframe.

David

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