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Re: setup RFC: Ditch homegrown http/ftp code and use a library?
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:07:52 -0800
- Subject: Re: setup RFC: Ditch homegrown http/ftp code and use a library?
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <005801c4c91b$7deb9e70$e6ec6f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk>
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