Its is a fantastic library that supports multithreading too.I use it
and is easy to use
Thanks to Daniel
Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Daniel Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > (Not related to this, but I thought I could through this in: One of
> > the blue-sky dreams I have for a rainy day, is converting wget to
> > use libcurl as transport layer for FTP(S)/HTTP(S)...)
>
> Such a thing is not entirely out of the question. I'm not exactly
> satisfied with Wget's "backend" code and I've been thinking about ways
> to redesign it for years now. But designing an HTTP layer is damned
> hard. You have to handle the concepts of "connection" and "download",
> as well as "reconnecting", persistent and non-persistent connections,
> etc. Then come the proxies, redirections, protocols based on HTTP
> which are not exactly HTTP, and a legion of other nuisances.
>
> Wget has traditionally been advertised as a "no dependency" program,
> i.e. people have been reported to install it right after `gzip' and
> `gcc'. But if I found a library that handled all of the above issues
> *graciously* (sorry folks, not libwww), I think I would prefer to use
> it than implement all of those things myself.
>
> I haven't looked at cURL before, but will do so. Is the documentation
> available online? If you are willing to advertise its features, take
> this as an invitation to do so. :-)
>
> (I'm now reading curl(1) man page and finding many cool things to
> steal, interface-wise.)
