Suggestion: create a socket implementation for Http.fs about http.fs HOT 2 OPEN

Are you talking about replacing the whole WebRequest part with a socket implementation, e.g. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bew39x2a(v=vs.110).aspx?

If so, it does sound like a very interesting prospect, although to be honest I don't really have the time (or, currently, knowledge) to take that on. I'd be more than happy to use this project an an incubator for that and get involved where I could.

If you're not talking about that, please correct me.

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Yes, exactly. At one point in the chain of abstractions, so to speak.

Actually, I'm thinking even lower-level than that; the linked article already has an implementation inside suave that makes it really easy to use; so that would be the first step, but I'm thinking that we can bake it all together; Suave is really nice in some ways, like the async sockets, Freya has real parsers for all the web RFCs and this library has an immutable foundation that's good to build on, a nice API and some users. Also thinking about Hopac instead of Async (throughout) and hopefully in the future something like a micro-kernel like Mirage, but from F# and F* that's fully async, only a few MB and runs well on different sorts of hosting platforms. AOT compilation in Mono is probably a piece of the puzzle.

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