Re: [gnome-love] Re: Kget on GNOME

[Manuel Clos <llanero eresmas net>]

Where this thread started?

I would like to add that I recently saw ulrget announced, which uses 
libcurl and gtk2

http://urlget.sourceforge.net/


Biswapesh Chattopadhyay wrote:
>>On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 12:01, Ahmad Mushtaq wrote:
>>
>>>Since gtm uses wget, but i wanted to write the app with built in
>>>functionality !
>>
>>  I think that using wget is an advantage. Wget is superb!
>>  Otherwise, if you want wget's functionality built-in, why not using
>>Gnome VFS?
> 
> 
> IMO, a much better idea would be to have a comprehensive GNOME to curl
> using libcurl, because:
> 	1. There is already a gnome-vfs frontend - Nautilus :-)
> 	2. wget is pretty limited in functionality (http and ftp only) and does
> not support many nuances of even those protocols
> 	3. libcurl is *very* powerful and supports lots of internet protocols.
> At the last count, it supported HTTP 1.1 (with cookies, etc.), FTP,
> HTTPS, Gopher, LDAP, etc.
> 	4. There is no GUI frontend which can fully exploit the real power of
> libcurl.
> 	5. curl is a very active project and new protocols are being added, and
> existing protocols are being refined all the time.
> 	6. There is a nice library interface to curl, libcurl (unlike wget) -
> which should make writing a GNOME GUI wrapper pretty simple.
> 	7. If you can write a pure GTK+ wrapper, it will work on Windows as
> well since both GTK+ and libcurl are cross-platform (to the best of my
> knowledge)
> 	8. Finally, it would give a lot of people a very powerful and flexible
> method of transferring data to/from the 'net.
> 	9. You can combine webdav and smb support to get a complete transfer
> manager using other libraries like neon (WebDAV) and libsmbclient (comes
> with samba).
> 	10. If you want to use gnome-vfs, it would be cool to write libcurl and
> neon backends and then write a file transfer client (or maybe even a
> fiel dialog!) on top.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Rgds,
> Biswa.
> 
> 
>>><quote who="Antti Boman">
>>>
>>>>Ahmad Mushtaq wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>i just saw Kget
>>>>
>>>>Which has been renamed as Caitoo, if I'm correct.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>on KDE & thought to rewrite it using GTK, but b4 that i
>>>>>wanted to know if there is already some thing like this present !
>>>>
>>>>I'd go and improve GTM (http://gtm.sourceforge.net/). It's a nice base
>>>>with a few glitches.
>>>>
>>>>-a
>>
>>--
>>Gustavo Joćo Alves Marques Carneiro
>><gjc@inescporto.pt> <gustavo@users.sourceforge.net>
>>
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