I was contemplating finally rewriting the HTTP code in Emacs/W3 in C. Does
anybody have ideas for what HTTP library to use? I'd prefer not having to
write it myself. The `libghttp' stuff from gnome looks like it could be
useful. It can do asynch fetches, etc.
Another alternative would be to use the W3C libwww, but I never really had
good experiences with that back in my Spry days (but that was more than 4
years ago). There is code to glue it into the gtk event mechanism at
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnorpm/tests/glibwww.c that could be fairly
easily adapted to the XEmacs event mechanism.
Alternatively, we could ask hrvoje to let us use the code from wget, but I
don't know if that allows for asynch fetches or not.
Suggestions anyone?
-Bill P.