There seems to be one standard library in Ocaml for dealing with HTTP, and that’s Ocamlnet. Ocamlnet suffers from a few problems, the chief of which is it’s difficult to set up unless you use something like GODI to install your packages. (Sadly, this is one thing that Ocaml is still not very strong at; [...]

I used to use Red Hat back when I had to compile special modules for my CD-ROM player, and I flirted with Gentoo for a while until I managed to irretrievably kill my installation with an emerge, but Ubuntu really seems to hit the sweet spot with regards to ease of use and functionality. However, [...]