Hi,
I was looking at a way to do some downloads over HTTPS from inside a C
program, and I realized that libfetch (which is a fine piece of code BTW)
can not do it easily. I looked for alternatives and found cURL
(http://curl.haxx.se/).
In the same spirit as fetch/libfetch, this comes with both a command line
executable and a C library. Some advantages of curl over fech are:
- it is available on many platforms
- it implements HTTPS and FTPS (and many other protocols)
- it implements uploads as well as downloads
- development seems to be more active
I was wondering if switching over to curl in the base system is something
that could be considered. If feedback is positive, I am willing to spend the
time required to integrate it. Eventually, libfetch could also be
re-implemented as a wrapper around libcurl to avoid lots of modifications of
existing tools.
Also please note that the licensing terms for curl are nice (dual license
MIT / MPL), so that should not be an issue.
Any thoughts ?
Patrick.
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