Subject: Re: bug#54836: [PATCH 1/2] http-client: Fix redirection.

From: Attila Lendvai <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 07:28:33 +0000

> > It's not enough to just handle the thrown exception, because we need to be
> > able to get hold of the fetched content, too.
>
> Would it make sense, then, to use the lower-level ‘http-get’ from (web
> client)? That would let the code deal with all the HTTP idiosyncrasies.

i think it boils down to this trade-off:

1) keep http-fetch simpler, at the expense of reimplementing parts of
   it in the go importer (e.g. the redirection logic)

2) add this extra complexity to http-fetch, and avoid the extra
   complexity of a local, potentially half-assed %http-fetch in the go
   importer.

3) something else i'm not aware of

please advise how to reshape this patch/feature, because it's needed
to file my go importer patches.

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