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Radio Crankypants 18-19 : Not Invented Here 18) That's unfair, really. The Frontier tcp verbs were around long before Apple released their URL Access Manager/Scripting widget. But the Apple widget has done HTTPS for almost three years now; somewhere in the Windows API there is support for HTTPS; still the Frontier kernel still does everything with plain old HTTP. Frontier/Radio, however, does talk AppleScript, which is a mixed blessing if I've ever heard one. Now that Perl ships with OS X I'm even less sure why I would want to :

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But hey, if you can deal with it, it does mean you should be able to do secure XML over HTTP on a Mac.