From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2010-05-18T16:33:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Asynchronous HTTP request

Daniel N wrote:
> There's a library I wrote specifically for external http requests in mind.
>  It uses threads and blocks on first access (no callbacks).
> 
> http://github.com/hassox/muscle

Except that's pretty much the same thing as my original example. And
indeed it's simple and effective. It's just that I happen to like the
concept of asynchronous IO so I would like to do it that way if
possible.

> On 18 May 2010 14:19, Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@medioh.com> wrote:
> 
>> Looks like you want futures, which can be provided by any number of
>> frameworks.  A pretty awesome one to consider is dataflow, which is based
>> off ideas from the Oz language:
>>
>> http://github.com/larrytheliquid/dataflow

Oooh, that's a pretty nifty concept... but again it relies on threads
to take care of the concurrency, which I already knew how to do.