# status useful, but probably has some buglets lingering in rarely exercisedcode paths.  # intro this is a http library, and simple sample http download client.the library supports both reading & writing requests & responses. some features: - ssl (using inferno's ssl device)- can do gzip/deflate negotiation for requests- supports low-level operations (reading/writing request/response)  as well as high-level operations (pass request, get file descriptor  to read response from (hiding intricacies of ssl, deflate and/or  http chunks)- supports http 1.0/1.1 and versionless "0.9"- can request through proxy  # download get the latest version from: 	http://www.ueber.net/code/r/http  # install make sure you have $ROOT set, now "mk install" to compile and installthe files. when building from within inferno, insert SYSHOST=Inferno and ROOT=in the mk invocations to override the values in the mkconfig.  # licence & author this code is in the public domain, written by mechiel lukkien,reachable at mechiel@ueber.net.  # todo: - split some of mhttp.m into an httpclient library, with higher-level  functionality (e.g. following redirects, handling range responses).  rewrite hget to use it. - lib: don't reinvent url parsing?  but use (one of the two?) url  libs in inferno.- lib: rename it from mhttp to http, once i have modified all my  local programs to use this new lib (instead of an older version)- lib: use factotum to deal with auth requests?- lib: do ssl better, e.g. with verifying certificates.  but that  is a more generic inferno problem.  same with problem that  non-"connection-close" connections hang until timeout (ssl libs  read() is like a readn(), and we use bufio so more data is requested  then is present).- lib: check ndb to see if a proxy should be used, not per request?  that means all programs using http lib get proxy stuff for free,  without having to set anything.  but cannot be disabled either...- lib: for ssl, use CONNECT to talk to the remote host? - write manual page for library?  once it stabilizes- lib: document somewhere that using "accept-encoding: deflate"  won't work with some webservers since those webservers return rfc1951  deflate data, instead of rfc1950 zlib. - hget: reinstate -n for allowing redirs, and -R for sending referers.