On Fri, Nov 07 2008, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
> > curl as os.spawn ?
> > Why don't use lua-curl
> > http://luaforge.net/projects/lua-curl/
> 
> 300kb extra in the binary and an extra portability headache.

I don't understand all the trouble...
This works very well on live.contextgarden.net (luatex):

\starttext
bla
\externalfigure[http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/hacker.jpg]
bla
\stoptext

Fetching a pdf instead of a jpg should be possible too, I believe...

Cheers, Peter

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