On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:38:52AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> I also realized that response-style makes no sense: it's the Content-Type
> header in the response that determines if what comes back is textual or
> not.  I'm inclined to think that returning a bytevector makes the most
> sense
>
> (simple-http-request verb url [ content-type source ]) => bytevector

I don't think that's a great API, it makes it impossible to download
files that are larger than the amount of RAM currently available.

> where source can be a bytevector, string, or input port.

What exactly is source, again?  The request body to send?

Cheers,
Peter