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

["Freddie Unpenstein" <fredderic excite com>]

> > Why not use libcurl? You can get much more info about your
> > connection.

> libcurl even provides examples for how to use libcurl with a Gtk+ app.
> Although I must admit their example should work fine for simple things
> becareful not to abuse what the example demonstrates (the use of
> gdk_threads_enter/leave) or a I fear it will come back to bit you!

Hmmm.....  libcurl does seem to be fairly popular...  Shame it doesn't come with a gtkcurl wrapper library, 
or something.  I'm not even fetching a web page, just a straight text file sitting on a web server (well, 
it's actually generated on request by a CGI script), so support for all the extra odds and sods is just bloat.

I just noticed the Gnet examples directory has a VERY basic http-fetch example...  I probably would have just 
used that if I'd noticed it when I first went looking.  :)  Although my reasoning for using wget in the first 
place, instead of a raw tcp connection, was to have at least some sense of robustness.  wget will give me the 
page I want, handle a few minor (and not so minor) bugbears that might pop up along the way, and give me a 
nice text dump / error log for the nosy.  The only thing I don't like about the wget way, is that it exposes 
the username/password combo packed into the http query address.  So it will be updated to one or the other; 
but I think I'll wait and see how Gnet turns out.


Fredderic

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