On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:03 AM oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > >> WINDOWS: [system] (in the "motex" library) > >> LINUX & OSX: [shell] (in the "ggee" library) > > > > > Yes, you can, but it is not portable (as it requires different > > solutions depending on platform) and requires additional filesystem > > interactions. Using [shell] (or [system] for that matter) has all kinds > > of side effects, like [shell] searches scripts relative to Pd start > > location instead of relative to Pd patch. I wouldn't recommend using > > those > > you are right, it's more like a workaround/hack in case nothing else > works. and it involves some tweaking, that's true. > > for the purpose of http-downloading, one would also need a 3rd party > commandline program like "wget" (at least for windows, as it's not native). > > I was looking into making a [httpsget] external but the whole TLS thing seems very difficult. For my purposes on linux I use [shell] with wget to save the data to a file, then open it with [binfile]. I was wondering if there is some cross-platform library to do the ssh, as I'm sure implementing it from scratch would take forever and be very error-prone. Not to mention doing it using vanilla objects....
Martin
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