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+The changes are recorded by the version control system, Darcs. To see a log
+quickly from the terminal, run:
+
+  $ darcs changes --repo http://hub.darcs.net/fr33domlover/monad-connect
+
+There is also a web interface at <http://hub.darcs.net> which, among other
+things, can display the history log.
+
+To see the log in a local clone, first get a copy of the repository if you
+haven't yet:
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+  $ darcs get http://hub.darcs.net/fr33domlover/monad-connect
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+Then move into the newly created directory and run darcs:
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+  $ cd monad-connect
+  $ darcs changes
diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
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+Install from Hackage/Stackage:
+
+    $ stack install monad-connect
+
+Install from unpacked release tarball or source repo:
+
+    $ cd monad-connect
+    $ stack install
+
+Just play with it without installing:
+
+    $ stack repl
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+This file lists the user-visible interesting changes between releases. For a
+full list of changes to the source, see the ChangeLog.
+
+
+
+monad-connect 0.1        2016-03-16
+===================================
+
+General, build and documentation changes:
+
+* (This is the first release, so everything is new)
+
+New APIs, features and enhancements:
+
+* (This is the first release, so everything is a new feature)
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+* (This is just the first release, many bugs haven't been discovered yet)
+
+Dependency changes:
+
+* (This is the first release)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+See the .cabal file for more info and link to project website the version
+control.
+
+The official download location is Hackage:
+
+<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/monad-connect>
+
+This library is free software, and is committed to software freedom. It is
+released to the public domain using the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. For the
+boring "legal" details see the file 'COPYING'.
+
+See the file 'INSTALL' for hints on installation. The file 'ChangeLog' explains
+how to see the history log of the changes done in the code. 'NEWS' provides a
+friendly overview of the changes for each release.
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/monad-connect.cabal b/monad-connect.cabal
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+name: monad-connect
+version: 0.1
+cabal-version: >=1.10
+build-type: Simple
+license: PublicDomain
+license-file: COPYING
+copyright: ♡ Copying is an act of love. Please copy, reuse and share.
+maintainer: fr33domlover@riseup.net
+homepage: http://hub.darcs.net/fr33domlover/monad-connect
+bug-reports: mailto:fr33domlover@riseup.net
+synopsis: Transformer for TCP connection with TLS and SOCKS support
+description:
+    This library is a basic monadic wrapper over the @connection@ package. It
+    provides a monad transformer which gives your monad stack the ability to
+    maintain a single TCP connection, possibly over TLS and/or SOCKS.
+    .
+    This is very convenient for simple client applications which connect to a
+    single server, but it is /not/ enough for robust applications which want to
+    automatically reconnect on errors. In the latter case, a reconnection and
+    error handling layer can be added on top of the simple transformer provided
+    here.
+category: Control, Monad, Network
+author: fr33domlover
+extra-source-files:
+    AUTHORS
+    ChangeLog
+    COPYING
+    INSTALL.md
+    NEWS.md
+    README.md
+
+source-repository head
+    type: darcs
+    location: http://hub.darcs.net/fr33domlover/monad-connect
+
+library
+    exposed-modules:
+        Control.Monad.Trans.Connect
+    build-depends:
+        base >=4.8 && <5,
+        bytestring >=0.10.6.0,
+        connection >=0.2.5,
+        exceptions >=0.8.2.1,
+        transformers >=0.4.2.0
+    default-language: Haskell2010
+    hs-source-dirs: src
+
diff --git a/src/Control/Monad/Trans/Connect.hs b/src/Control/Monad/Trans/Connect.hs
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+{- This file is part of monad-connect.
+ -
+ - Written in 2016 by fr33domlover <fr33domlover@riseup.net>.
+ -
+ - ♡ Copying is an act of love. Please copy, reuse and share.
+ -
+ - The author(s) have dedicated all copyright and related and neighboring
+ - rights to this software to the public domain worldwide. This software is
+ - distributed without any warranty.
+ -
+ - You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication along
+ - with this software. If not, see
+ - <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>.
+ -}
+
+{-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}
+
+-- | Simple monad transformer allowing your monad stack to manage a single TCP
+-- connection, optionally over TLS and\/or SOCKS.
+module Control.Monad.Trans.Connect
+    ( -- * Connect and disconnect
+      ConnectT ()
+    , runConnectT
+    , runConnectTWithCtx
+    , connClose
+      -- * Receive data
+    , connGetSome
+    , connGetChunk
+    , connGetChunk'
+    , connGetLine
+      -- * Send data
+    , connPut
+      -- * TLS
+    , connSetSecure
+    , connSetSecureWithCtx
+    , connIsSecure
+    )
+where
+
+import Control.Monad.Catch
+import Control.Monad.Fix (MonadFix)
+import Control.Monad.IO.Class
+import Control.Monad.Trans.Class (MonadTrans)
+import Control.Monad.Trans.Reader
+import Data.ByteString (ByteString)
+
+import qualified Network.Connection as NC
+
+--------------TODO TODO TODO careful exception handling, especially to allow
+--------------continuing with the same monadic computation after recovery
+
+
+-- | Monad transformer allowing your monad stack to manage a single TCP
+-- connection, optionally over TLS and\/or SOCKS. A single 'ConnectT'
+-- computation sequence opens a connection, possibly sends and receives data,
+-- and finally closes it.
+newtype ConnectT m a = ConnectT
+    { unCT :: ReaderT (NC.ConnectionContext, NC.Connection) m a
+    }
+    deriving
+        ( -- Basics
+          Functor
+        , Applicative
+        , Monad
+          -- Extra monads from base
+        , MonadFix
+          -- Network operations are IO
+        , MonadIO
+          -- This is a transformer after all
+        , MonadTrans
+          -- Exceptions
+        , MonadCatch
+        , MonadThrow
+        , MonadMask
+        )
+
+-- | Execute a computation which has a network connection available to it. If
+-- an exception is thrown (e.g. due to network error) and the computation
+-- doesn't catch it, the connection is closed and the exception is rethrown.
+runConnectT
+    :: (MonadIO m, MonadMask m)
+    => ConnectT m a
+    -- ^ The computation
+    -> NC.ConnectionParams
+    -- ^ Network connection details
+    -> Bool
+    -- ^ Whether to close the connection if the computation finishes without
+    -- errors (the connection is always closed in case of error unless you
+    -- catch the error and handle it your way).
+    -> m a
+runConnectT act params close = do
+    ctx <- liftIO NC.initConnectionContext
+    runConnectTWithCtx act ctx params close
+
+-- | A variant of 'runConnectT' which takes an existing 'NC.ConnectionContext'
+-- instead of initializing a new one. This is useful if you want to start
+-- several connections (in which case you can share a single context between
+-- them).
+runConnectTWithCtx
+    :: (MonadIO m, MonadMask m)
+    => ConnectT m a
+    -> NC.ConnectionContext
+    -> NC.ConnectionParams
+    -> Bool
+    -> m a
+runConnectTWithCtx act ctx params close =
+    (if close then bracket else bracketOnError)
+        (liftIO $ NC.connectTo ctx params)
+        (liftIO . NC.connectionClose)
+        (\ conn -> runReaderT (unCT act) (ctx, conn))
+
+askConn :: Monad m => ConnectT m NC.Connection
+askConn = snd <$> ConnectT ask
+
+askCtx :: Monad m => ConnectT m NC.ConnectionContext
+askCtx = fst <$> ConnectT ask
+
+-- | Close a connection. After you do that, don't use the connection. If the
+-- connection is already closed, for a plain TCP connection this currently does
+-- nothing. But when using TLS, it assumes the connection is still open. So to
+-- be safe, don't use this more than once.
+--
+-- If you asked for the connection to be closed after a succesful computation
+-- (i.e. passed 'True' to 'runConnectT'), then the connection will be closed
+-- for you and calling this function is unnecessary (and possibly unsafe).
+connClose :: MonadIO m => ConnectT m ()
+connClose = askConn >>= liftIO . NC.connectionClose
+
+-- | Wait until there is data to read from the connection, and return it. The
+-- parameter specifies the maximal number of bytes to read. Less than that can
+-- be returned, depending on how much data was available.
+--
+-- On end of input, an empty bytestring is returned, but subsequent calls will
+-- throw an @isEOFError@ exception.
+connGetSome :: MonadIO m => Int -> ConnectT m ByteString
+connGetSome maxlen = askConn >>= liftIO . flip NC.connectionGet maxlen
+
+-- | Get the next block of data from the connection.
+connGetChunk :: MonadIO m => ConnectT m ByteString
+connGetChunk = askConn >>= liftIO . NC.connectionGetChunk
+
+-- | Like 'connGetChunk', but return the unused portion to the buffer, where it
+-- will be the next chunk read.
+connGetChunk' :: MonadIO m => (ByteString -> (a, ByteString)) -> ConnectT m a
+connGetChunk' f = askConn >>= liftIO . flip NC.connectionGetChunk' f
+
+-- | Get the next line, using ASCII LF (@'\n'@) as the line terminator.
+--
+-- This throws an @isEOFError@ exception on end of input, and 'NC.LineTooLong'
+-- when the number of bytes gathered is over the limit without a line
+-- terminator.
+--
+-- The actual line returned can be bigger than the limit specified, provided
+-- that the last chunk returned by the underlaying backend contains a LF.
+--
+-- An end of file will be considered as a line terminator too, if the line is
+-- not empty.
+connGetLine :: MonadIO m => Int -> ConnectT m ByteString
+connGetLine maxlen = askConn >>= liftIO . NC.connectionGetLine maxlen
+
+-- | Send a block of data over the connection.
+connPut :: MonadIO m => ByteString -> ConnectT m ()
+connPut s = askConn >>= liftIO . flip NC.connectionPut s
+
+-- | Activate secure layer using the parameters specified.
+--
+-- This is typically used to negociate a TLS channel on an already establish
+-- channel, e.g. supporting a STARTTLS command. It also flushes the received
+-- buffer to prevent application from confusing received data before and after
+-- the setSecure call.
+--
+-- If the connection is already using TLS, nothing else happens.
+connSetSecure :: MonadIO m => NC.TLSSettings -> ConnectT m ()
+connSetSecure tlss = askCtx >>= flip connSetSecureWithCtx tlss
+
+-- | Like 'connSetSecure', but uses the supplied 'NC.ConnectionContext' instead
+-- of using the same one which was used when opening the connection.
+connSetSecureWithCtx
+    :: MonadIO m
+    => NC.ConnectionContext
+    -> NC.TLSSettings
+    -> ConnectT m ()
+connSetSecureWithCtx ctx tlss = do
+    conn <- askConn
+    liftIO $ NC.connectionSetSecure ctx conn tlss
+
+-- | Check whether the connection is established securely (using TLS).
+connIsSecure :: MonadIO m => ConnectT m Bool
+connIsSecure = askConn >>= liftIO . NC.connectionIsSecure
