On 04/24/16 11:01, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Hey,
>
> This whole family of functions, fopen, fread, fwrite, fgets, fclose and
> more are defined in the C standard since C89. You can’t really call
> yourself a C programmer without knowing them and probably even using
> them in at least a few places.
>
> I’ve started to work on a library that provides a look-alike API with
> matching functions and behaviors, but that allows fopen() to instead
> specify a URL instead of a file name. I call it fcurl. It is hosted at
> https://github.com/bagder/fcurl
>
> It is not strictly libcurl, as it is written to be on top of it but it
> is powered by libcurl of course.
>
> The entire blog post is here:
>
> https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/04/24/fcurl-is-fread-and-friends-for-urls/

This is a snazzy great idea. A really awesome feature would be thread
safe capability from the beginning.

Dennis

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