Re: How best to fetch a web page...

[Stefan Kost <kost imn htwk-leipzig de>]

Just another suggestion:
gnome_vfs

Stefan

Freddie Unpenstein wrote:
> I've been trying to use g_spawn_async_with_pipes to run wget, and have it write the page to stdout (with 
> output going to stderr along with anything that would normally go there), and then syphon these off.  The 
> output I was hoping to display in a little GtkTextView log window (hidden inside an extender), while the 
> fetched page (which is just a text file containing a list of variable=value pairs, some of which I'll be 
> displaying in a dialog box) would be parsed as it came in over the spawned wget's stdout.
>
> This is not working for me.  I'm not even going to bother posting my code, because it's a total cock-up.  
> Does anyone have any examples I could look at, or hints on how to do this kind of thing (running a program 
> and capturing both output channels) properly?
>
>
> And as an alternative, any suggestions on fundamentally better ways of fetching a web page asynchonously?  
> I'm more than willing to do something drastically simple instead but dastedly effective, and forgo the 
> whole g_spawn_* experience for now just to have a working program instead.
>
>
> Advice either way would be much appreciated,
> Fredderic
>
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