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

[Tim Müller <zen18864 zen co uk>]

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:42, Hubert Sokolowski wrote:

> > 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.

The latest GNet release (2.0.5) doesn't have support for http yet 
unfortunately, only the latest snapshot (from Oct 7) has the new GConnHttp 
stuff.


As for fetching a web page by spawning wget, check out the code here:

 http://scentric.net/tmp/spawn-async-with-pipes-gtk.c

(could be improved by using g_child_watch_add() to find out when wget has 
finished and to get its exit status).

Cheers 
 -Tim