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

[Todd Fisher <toddf simosoftware com>]

Freddie Unpenstein wrote:

> > Just another suggestion: gnome_vfs
> >    
>
> Its dependancies are a little stiff, although I was planning in the future to turn the whole thing into an 
> applet, or stick it into the notification area, or something.  Which as I understand it, means pulling in 
> Gnome anyhow.
>
> Raw TCP -- simple, would work, pain in the butt, and limited.
> Wget -- Done.  Pretty error messages, but limited control.
> GnetHttp -- Isn't readily available yet.
> libCurl -- lots of features, but needs threading?
>  
No libcurl does not require threading, you can use it's multi interface, 
which i'd recommend too if you're doing a lot of downloading.  
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-multi.html

> Gnome VFS -- may as well make it a Gnome app.
>
>
> Fredderic
>
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