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Re: Read Text file from the web

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:19:29 -0700

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:30:48PM +0300, Demetris Zavorotnichenko wrote:
> I'm using a GPRS connection for the web. So it's pretty slow.
>
> The thing is that I use a g_timeout_add loop to make this work, so when it
> gets to the point of wget then when it finishes the loop tries to keep up
> and loops pretty fast making more wget commands which stalls my system.

If you are performing many downloads sequentially, then libcurl can
do it faster than spawning wget each time. It can not only keep the
connection up for subsequent downloads but can use HTTP pipelining as well.

>>> Dan

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