[stdlib-sig] http package proposal

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-02-04 16:02, Christian Heimes wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>> cookielib -> http.cookies
>> Why plural ?
> 
> The plural form feels more natural to me. I haven't seen the singular
> form "browser cookie" in a long time.

It's actually more about convention than actual use :-)

If we name the module http.cookies, we'd also have to
name the server module http.servers, since there are
multiple server implementations included.

However, you normally don't do this in code libraries (see
e.g Java).

>> -1 on adding xmlrpc to the http package.
>>
>> Better to have:
>>
>> xmlrpclib -> xmlrpc.client
>> SimpleXMLRPCServer -> xmlrpc.server
> 
> +1 for xmlrpc package.

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