[wildfly-dev] Removing curl support from management HTTP

[Arun Gupta]

I would agree with Heiko, Curl is often used by admins in their shell
scripts. This makes their scripts portable.

Is there an overhead to supporting curl ?

Arun

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:35 AM, Darran Lofthouse
<darran.lofthouse at jboss.com> wrote:
> Hello Ladislav,
>
> No 'reasoning' as such at this point, and no decisions taken yet.  We
> are currently discussing the future of domain management especially over
> HTTP and I need to understand how important tools like this are.
>
> We originally had support for standard HTTP clients on the requirements
> list, just need to validate now if it was a valid requirement ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Darran Lofthouse.
>
>
> On 08/01/14 11:58, Ladislav Thon wrote:
>>> Just starting to plan some upstream changes for WildFly and just wanted
>>> to gauge how much simple http tools like curl are in use?
>>>
>>> If we were to completely disable their use would it cause problems?
>>
>> That would be a blocker regression for me :-)
>>
>> Could you share what's the reasoning behind this? I use curl basically for everything that supports HTTP interaction (unless I build a specialized tool, but even then, I use curl for debugging the tool. It's immensely useful and I would hate losing it).
>>
>> LT
>>
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