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

["Hubert Sokolowski" <h sokolowski wsisiz edu pl>]

> 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.

the easiest way is to use gnet library (www.gnetlibrary.org) that depends
on glib.

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