4 ms·

Here's the official Yesod Book[1] mentioning WAI and Warp as a de-facto standard server implementation for a Haskell Web ecosystem. So just to be clear: To di

Here's the official Yesod Book[1] mentioning WAI and Warp as a de-facto standard server implementation for a Haskell Web ecosystem. So just to be clear: To discover what is actually possible in this area, someone new to Yesod is supposed to read the entire book through to an appendix, which itself could kindly be described as "not entirely clear". Then they're supposed to recognise that they need to write their Haskell application using WAI and a Warp backend (whatever that means in this context, because the relationships between these tools are among the "not entirely clear" aspects of that appendix) instead of using the other tools that were already described earlier in the book, despite having no obvious motivation for doing so at this point (because terms like HTTP/2 and TLS do not appear anywhere in the Yesod book appendix you linked to). Then on the off chance that these alternative tools mentioned in an appendix of an online book can do what the developer wants even though the appendix doesn't say anything about that at all, our intrepid developer is supposed to go and look up the Hackage pages for those tools, one of which does at least mention the term HTTP/2. There's no further information on those documentation pages about how to actually use important features of HTTP/2, for example setting up server push, though. In fact, the only reference to server push I can find anywhere in the Warp documentation relates to the function setServerPushLogger. So while I appreciate your taking the time to comment, I'm afraid my previous conclusion has not changed. Maybe these tools are useful if you already understand them in detail, but for someone familiar with Haskell but writing a web application with it for the first time, this experience isn't even on the same scale as a good, production-ready ecosystem. Finally, just for the record, while choosing the perfect query to Google might have found you a useful link, several similar obvious searches I tried before did not, nor indeed does the exact term you mentioned ("haskell yesod http2") in some other search engines such as Duck Duck Go. And your Pasteboard link (I assume) intending to demonstrate the search you managed successfully is not working from here.

ghostwriter 6y ago
> Maybe these tools are useful if you already understand them in detail, but for someone familiar with Haskell but writing a web application with it for the first time, this experience isn't even on the same scale as a good, production-ready ecosystem. But this is hardly an example of "not being able to find it with a search engine" as the original message seemed to claim. Surely it takes time to get acquainted with a new ecosystem, and curiosity is welcomed in the community. > To discover what is actually possible in this area, someone new to Yesod is supposed to read the entire book through to an appendix That's hardly true either, one just needs to google "haskell yesod http2" or "haskell yesod tls" - both results will be within topmost 5 links. The results will be full of potentially unfamiliar technical details, but they still allow getting the general idea of what is possible. And reading the book helps enormously to get everything internalized. > There's no further information on those documentation pages about how to actually use important features of HTTP/2, for example setting up server push, though the top link of googling "haskell warp http2 server push" produces a whole section on how server pushes are done - https://hackage.haskell.org/package/wai-3.0.4.0/docs/Network-Wai-HTTP2.html https://hackage.haskell.org/package/wai-3.0.4.0/docs/Network... > in some other search engines such as Duck Duck Go I use DDG by default, and I regularly add !g for the same reason
- user5994461 6y ago
  I tried too and there was nothing useful I could find in the first results of google for "haskell yesod http2". Google is heavily customizing search results per use so we probably have different results. The only related thing I got at the end of search results is this page https://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2015/07/http2 https://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2015/07/http2 that doesn't even mention yesod so good luck trying to understand what is it while all it talks about is haskell warp. By the way this paragraph is scary. Haskell didn't support half of the modern cryptography required for TLS 1.2 (2008) so the author had to write them himself (and sent pull request to the tls haskell package). "Unfortunately, many pieces were missing in the tls library. So, it was necessary for me to implement ALPN, ECDHE(Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman, ephemeral) and AES GCM(Galois/Counter Mode). They are already merged into the tls and cryptonite library."

ghostwriter 6y ago

> Maybe these tools are useful if you already understand them in detail, but for someone familiar with Haskell but writing a web application with it for the first time, this experience isn't even on the same scale as a good, production-ready ecosystem. But this is hardly an example of "not being able to find it with a search engine" as the original message seemed to claim. Surely it takes time to get acquainted with a new ecosystem, and curiosity is welcomed in the community. > To discover what is actually possible in this area, someone new to Yesod is supposed to read the entire book through to an appendix That's hardly true either, one just needs to google "haskell yesod http2" or "haskell yesod tls" - both results will be within topmost 5 links. The results will be full of potentially unfamiliar technical details, but they still allow getting the general idea of what is possible. And reading the book helps enormously to get everything internalized. > There's no further information on those documentation pages about how to actually use important features of HTTP/2, for example setting up server push, though the top link of googling "haskell warp http2 server push" produces a whole section on how server pushes are done - https://hackage.haskell.org/package/wai-3.0.4.0/docs/Network-Wai-HTTP2.html https://hackage.haskell.org/package/wai-3.0.4.0/docs/Network... > in some other search engines such as Duck Duck Go I use DDG by default, and I regularly add !g for the same reason

user5994461 6y ago
I tried too and there was nothing useful I could find in the first results of google for "haskell yesod http2". Google is heavily customizing search results per use so we probably have different results. The only related thing I got at the end of search results is this page https://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2015/07/http2 https://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2015/07/http2 that doesn't even mention yesod so good luck trying to understand what is it while all it talks about is haskell warp. By the way this paragraph is scary. Haskell didn't support half of the modern cryptography required for TLS 1.2 (2008) so the author had to write them himself (and sent pull request to the tls haskell package). "Unfortunately, many pieces were missing in the tls library. So, it was necessary for me to implement ALPN, ECDHE(Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman, ephemeral) and AES GCM(Galois/Counter Mode). They are already merged into the tls and cryptonite library."