Re: URL loading library?

Tuesday, 9 November 1999

        Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)iskon.hr&gt; writes:

...
 wmperry(a)aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:

 > 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.

 A friend of mine has looked into libghttp and told me it's entirely
 broken.  I haven't checked, but I've a hunch that he might be right. 
It seems to be woefully inadequate for what we need. :(

...
 Wget is hardly useful for your purposes -- as I no longer have time
for
 it (see
 http://fly.srk.fer.hr/archive/wget?id=87wvs347gk.fsf＠pc-hrvoje.srce.hr),
 it grows dusty, and it was never able to do async downloads in the first
 place. 
That's what I was afraid of. :(  Oh well. :)

...
 I was told that libwww is in much better shape than it was four years
ago
 (people in the Lynx project also had bad experiences with old versions),
 and it's compatible with the GPL. 
The old versions were pretty nasty... I added SSL and HTTPS support to the
(then CERN) web server at spry.  God what a memory. :)

I downloaded it last night, but can't get it to even configure because of
automake weirdness.  *sigh*

-Bill P.

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