Re: need volunteers to write a Lisp primitive interface for the ftp functionality in wininet.dll
Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com> writes:
> For Windows, I'd suggest to use wininet.dll: there is an
> already implemented FTP there.
is this a standard dll? [presumably]
Yup.
if so, it would be great if someone wrote an interface to this, so
that
efs could use it on windows instead of having to connect to a program. i
presume this is what the windows programs that do ftp that i've seen are
using.
any takers?
I could try and spend a few days un-GTK-ifying the foreign-function
interface (I've been meaning to do this for a while). Then, depending on
what the interface looks like (can someone send a header file?), you could
import the functions like this:
(import-function HANDLE InetOpen ((string . agent)
(dword . access-type)
(string . proxy)
(string . proxy-bypass)
(dword . flags)))
(import-function HANDLE InetOpenUrl ((HANDLE . inethandle)
(string . url)
(string . headers)
(dword . headers-length)
(dword . flags)
(dword . context))
(setq inet-handle (InetOpen (format "XEmacs/%d.%d" emacs-major-version
emacs-minor-version)
INET_OPEN_TYPE_DIRECT
nil nil nil))
(setq inet-handle (InetOpenUrl inet-handle
"ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/README"
nil nil nil nil))
etc, etc.
Personally I'd prefer seeing something written in lisp that could be used
even on unix, but maybe that's just me. :)
-bp
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