[wildfly-dev] Removing curl support from management HTTP

[Arun Gupta]

+1 that we should keep curl support :-)

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Darran Lofthouse
<darran.lofthouse at jboss.com> wrote:
> On 08/01/14 13:59, Arun Gupta wrote:
>>
>> 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 ?
>
>
> Not necessarily, new features are being discussed regarding authentication
> at this point I am just trying to confirm if my perception that users are
> using tools like curl is actually true ;-)
>
>
>>
>> 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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