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by ianstallings 3899 days ago
Because they're not going to rewrite or replace code that already has been tested and works in production.
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gorena 3898 days ago
Using an unmaintained networking stack should terrify you.
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Velox 3898 days ago
Just because it's old doesn't mean it's unmaintained.
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plorkyeran 3898 days ago
ASIHTTPRequest has been unmaintained for years.
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NateLawson 3898 days ago
Correct, the banner shows it was last updated in 2011.

http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/

Given the problems we found with SSL domain verification in another networking library, you definitely don't want to be using unmaintained code for this.

https://sourcedna.com/blog/20150420/afnetworking-vulnerabili...

(SourceDNA helps developers secure & improve their apps, and one of the things we identify is out-of-date static libraries.)

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