Re: HTTPAPI vs ISockets

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I use HTTPAPI every day in a production environment. The code is
solid, easy to work with, free, and efficient. Scott provides good
support for what's basically a hobby, and there's a developing
community for the project. This is truly open source, which IMO can be
a major factor in platform/OS adoption.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Jones, Simon <Simon.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   This isnt really a technical question as such, more a
>   comment/statement of support for HTTPAPI.  Having used this facility
>   for a while with no issues, no problems, and knowing that it has saved
>   me in the past probably weeks of effort in doing I was amused to see
>   the following post in one of the forums
>
>   "Heck, look at iSockets (www.isockets.net) it is a SOCKETS wrapper
>   *SRVPGM that I
>   wrote a couple years ago. Why did I write it? Because the one that
>   "everybody"
>   suggested I use, written by a noted Magazine Author, was so ridge that
>   I
>   couldn't install it into anything other than the library the author
>   initially
>   used. Which meant I had to add yet another library to my library list
>   to,
>   compile it, to run it and to allow the end-users to use it.  The
>   attitude of
>   "you've got the source, and it was free so change it yourself" is sort
>   of
>   strange and only dampens the desire for others to use it. And this one
>   was
>   written by a relatively good developer."
>
>   At least he thinks Scott is a 'relatively' good developer, although
>   quite what you need to do to be an 'actually' good developer is beyond
>   me at the moment!
>
>
>
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