 Instead of writting our own http library we probably should use one that is
quite complete and still actively developed.  Possiblities include libghttp or
neon.  libghttp is available from 
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/libghttp . Which is fairly complete
and possibly (C) fsf.  libghttp itself is LGPL.
Another possibility is neon, which is LGPL, but probably
won't ever be (C) fsf.  neon is available from http://www.webdav.org/neon.
neon is still actively developed and ment for webdav which are good things for
a httpfs.  Neon currently uses openssl for ssl connections, unfortunatly we
can't change this to use GNUtls because GNUtls is GPL'd and neon in LGPL'd.
