It can if you initially wrote your code to use WinHTTP
It can if you initially wrote your code to use WinHTTP
Posted Jan 9, 2009 20:29 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Chrome 2.0 Preview Means Mac, Linux Versions Coming Soon (Wired blog) by pr1268
Parent article: Chrome 2.0 Preview Means Mac, Linux Versions Coming Soon (Wired blog)
The problem is: Netscape, Mozilla/Firefox, and Opera don't WinHTTP even on Windows. And if by some reason (compatibility, whatever)
you absolutely want to use WinHTTP on Windows you are stuck. You need to
either
1. Implement WinHTTP API (or some very similar API) for Linux and Mac,
or
2. Implement abstraction layer to reuse WinHTTP on Windows and some other
library on Linux/Mac
Apparently Google decided to go with choice #1...
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