From: Richard Zidlicky <rz@...68k.org>
Date: 2003-07-18T07:11:09+09:00
Subject: Re: OO Design question for Net::HTTP caching extension

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:41:55PM +0900, Aredridel wrote:
> 
> > One architectural suggestion: rather than extending/overriding Net::HTTP,
> > make your cache a separate object.
> 
> On second thought, integrating as tightly as I'd like with Net::HTTP,
> while it works, isn't practical because the cache can't be checked
> easily until after the socket's opened.
> 
> I'll probably go with a delegator much like Net::HTTP::Proxy.  We'll
> see.  This is useful code, and it's already nearly good enough for my
> uses but deserves some full development because I can see a lot of need.

actually I found it quite irritating that proxy isn�t intergated
more transparently into Net::HTTP (not to mention complete lack of
support for ftp proxy)
Every Perl or Python tool will use http_proxy and no_proxy environment
variables by default and I see no reason Ruby tools should do 
differently.

Richard