On Tuesday 30 of March 2010 05:09:44 Ben Greear wrote:
> It seems to me that it would be best to just allow passing the file list
> back to the user and let them parse it and then make individual
> requests for files as desired.

Parsing of the file list is protocol-specific, though not properly
standardized AFAIK. I think such ability of libcurl may be useful
for some class of applications.

> What's the advantage of putting all of this into libcurl?

Though the patch is not tiny, major part of the code is the mentioned
parser. As for the public libcurl API I don't think it is that
intrusive. Beyond the specific task, it introduces a new interface
for processing more objects per one URL, which may also be used by
some other protocols in future.

Kamil
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