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bottiger
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Old 03-31-2014 , 18:08   Re: [ANY] Async - Efficient event based HTTP client
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Originally Posted by VoiDeD View Post
The Steamworks SDK was released by Valve months ago. Regardless of whether you make use of OSW or the official SDK, extensions don't need to be rebuilt at all. The Steamtools and Steamworks extensions HTTP features will work forever.
The HTTP interface probably won't break but it is still a non-zero chance.

"Safe" interfaces isn't a guarantee that everything will continue to work. It only means that it won't crash. Valve can still deprecate old interfaces so that they don't work. I have personally experienced this problem.

Even Kyles includes a steamclient download and tells people to install it.

https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=229556

I don't know about everyone else, but I would prefer not to replace a file that can get clobbered by an update or worry about the game using a new interface not included in Kyles' version.
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