Whatever happened to libghttp

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Apr 25 19:09:04 UTC 2008


Geoffrey Leach <geoff <at> hughes.net> writes:
> libghttp is a lightweight HTTP library. Its RPM appears have been a 
> part of Fedora through Core 5. Does anyone know why it was dropped -- 
> or if it's hiding in some other RPM.

It's one of the GNOME 1 libraries. Most of these have been dropped because 
nothing (in Fedora) needed them anymore. The current HTTP library of choice in 
GNOME appears to be libsoup, but of course that has a completely different API.

What do you need libghttp for?

        Kevin Kofler




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