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Re: setup RFC: Ditch homegrown http/ftp code and use a library?


Max Bowsher wrote:

> So, I'm looking for comments, and suggestions for candidate http/ftp client
> libraries to investigate.

What's wrong with libcurl?  It has extensive support for all kinds of
extended http/ftp features, see for example
<http://curl.haxx.se/docs/comparison-table.html>, and is MIT-licensed so
should be no problem statically linking it into setup.exe.

Brian


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