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Re: CURL and OpenVXI

From: Tony Cheung <tony_at_astri.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:58:00 +0800

Hi Daniel Stenberg,

I am actually integrating cURL with OpenVXI.

So far, I get the basic stuffs working. I could just give a few
prelimary comments.

As we know, cURL lacks the caching mechanisms as offered by libwww. For
some applications, this kind of caching is essential.

I also think that the cookie support of cURL is rather limited without a
  full programmatic API support. This issue is still fine for me right now.

I am also looking for URI parsing capabilities as offered by libwww's
HTParse module (http://www.w3.org/Library/src/HTParse). Specially I need
to construct an absolute URL from a relative URL and a partial URL. I
understand that URL parsing is not offered by cURL, but is there any
suggestion for other URL parsing libraries? I do not want to use libwww
just for its URL parsers.

Of course, cURL beats libwww for its simplicity, multi-threading support
and most importantly an active development community. Thank you!

Regards,
Tony Cheung

>> Has anyone integrated cURL library with OpenVXI 2.0.1.
>
> I can't say I have. I didn't even know what OpenVXI was when you mentioned
> it
>
>> I know that it is easier and better to replace the "thread unsafe" libwww
>> with libCURL in OpenVXI 2.0.1. Any pointers as to how it can be done would
>> be really great.
>
> Yes, having some kind of document with advice or at least a few notes from
> people that have moved from libwww to libcurl would be superb!
>
> I'm not sure what it takes to transfer data with libwww, but if *I* were to
> make that transition, I'd more or less rip out all the old library-using code
> and then try to add the new code using the new paradigms etc.
>
> If you have read the libcurl docs and have specific questions on how it works
> or is supposed to work, feel free to ask!
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2003-04-15