[PATCH 1/2] request: drop to_path support

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

It is too complex for sockets due to unknown response lengths
and no actively developed servers take advantage of it.
---
 lib/http_spew/request.rb | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/http_spew/request.rb b/lib/http_spew/request.rb
index 63bac64..3c3ef7e 100644
--- a/lib/http_spew/request.rb
+++ b/lib/http_spew/request.rb
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 # This is the base class actually capable of making a normal HTTP request
 class HTTP_Spew::Request
 
-  # May be called by some Rack servers such as Rainbows! to bypass
-  # +to_path+ calls and avoid path lookups.
+  # May be called by IO.select or for use with IO#wait_*able
   attr_reader :to_io
 
   # Stores any exception that was raised in another thread (e.g.
@@ -95,12 +94,6 @@ class HTTP_Spew::Request
     @response = r << self
   end
 
-  # Used by some Rack-compatible servers to optimize transfers
-  # by using IO.copy_stream
-  def to_path
-    "/dev/fd/#{@to_io.fileno}"
-  end
-
   def too_big! # :nodoc:
     raise HTTP_Spew::RequestError.new(self), "response headers too large", []
   end
-- 
EW