Re: [UG] Urlgrabber 3.9.0 - pycurl-tastic

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Brian Long wrote:

> On 07/31/2009 04:32 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> The big change for this release is porting the backend over to using
>> libcurl/pycurl. It took a fair bit of work to preserve the existing
>> urlgrabber api and make things sane/behave with pycurl.
>
> Hello Seth,
> I might have missed an email, but why the backend change to pycurl?  I
> saw James Anthill mention a curl-based backend a few weeks ago, but I
> never saw a discussion on the change.
>
> Just curious what's coming down the pike...
>

two major reasons:

1. linking to nss instead of openssl so we'll be FIPS certified
2. hopefully fixing a bunch of proxy issues and https/http mix-match 
issues
3. giving a place to go for new features.

-sv