Keith Malde writes:
> Apologies for not bringing up heavy theoretical issues, but
> is there a
> library routine for retrieveing URLs? I need to digest some
> web pages
> and extract a bit of data from them, and I've munged together
> a rather
> naïve XML (and soon HTML) parser[0], but I bet somebody, somewhere has
> a function that lets me read an URL as if it were just another
> file/stream/whatever.
>
> So, where are the goods, and how can I get 'em?
>
> -kzm
The URI library in hslibs contains code for parsing and manipulating URIs
(URI is a generalised URL). See:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/set/sec-uri.html
Cheers,
Simon
