Re: [Vala] Downloading a file from the internet to some directory.

[Julian Andres Klode <jak jak-linux org>]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 09:43:46AM +0200, Frederik wrote:
> Arkadi Viner wrote:
> > Hello every body.
> >
> > My program needs to download some file from the internet each time it
> > starts,
> > how to accomplish that mission?
> >
> > Is there a gtk librery to do it or i have to use the webkit library?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Hi,
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> void main () {
>       var src = File.new_for_uri ("http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.7/vala-0.7.6.tar.bz2";);
>       var dst = File.new_for_path ("vala-0.7.6.tar.bz2");
>       try {
>               src.copy (dst, FileCopyFlags.NONE, null, null);
>       } catch (Error e) {
>               stderr.printf ("%s\n", e.message);
>       }
> }

Doesn't this require gvfsd-http? I am also looking at file downloads
for APT2 and everytime I use a http url, it starts gvfsd-http. And
installing all the gvfs backends is not really acceptable for APT2.


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