Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just updated the page http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/competitors.html on the
> web site and it reminded me to ask:
>
> Is there anyone around here who have used one of the alternative open
> libraries for data transfers and is able to provide a comparison? It's of
> course a way to "promote" libcurl more but I also honestly want to help people
> find the right tool for their jobs, be it libcurl or another library.

We optionally use libfetch in OpenLDAP. It has an extremely simple API, which
made it attractive for our purpose. (We only use it when parsing external
references in an LDIF input, and most of the time those references are only
file:// URLs.)

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   -- Howard Chu
   CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
   Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
   Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/
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