[webkit-dev] wx/Gtk+ and Network backends

[Alp Toker]

Holger Freyther wrote:
> So please before wasting more time on implementing the same things for 
> different backends let us wotk on one together. I do not care if it is 
> curl+glib, soup, neon...

Indeed, there are a lot of http backends around and not all of them are 
even being tested by build bots.

For the GTK+ port, we're investigating soup because the maintainer has 
suggested it'll gain caching, cookie and PAC support (probably using 
JSCore), getting similar functionality to CFNetwork. If this works out, 
it'll align with our needs in the GTK+ port and let us avoid 
re-implementing this functionality ourselves on top of curl.

soup has main loop integration but so does Mike Emmel's new ncurl http 
backend so this isn't really a deciding factor. I'd like to see ncurl 
eventually replace the current curl backend.

We continue to use the curl http backend by default in the GTK+ port 
because it works better and is more widely available than soup-2.4 at 
the moment. Don't know if we're ready to switch just yet though.

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