I have an HTTPClient library that works for GET, PUT, POST for most use cases where one would use an embedding of a wrapped curl.
It understands chunked encoding and "pipes" the de-chunked HTTP stream to a port automatically So for example, you can do a GET of a large file and stream it to disc without reading the entire file into a byte buffer. It also works with HTTPS as well. Bad news it is still in unpolished at the API level, with limited scribblings for doc. But I use it quite heavily for AWS REST API integration, web scrapping runs of several hours in duration and it is stable and reasonably fast. https://github.com/RayRacine/racketlib/tree/master/httpclient Ray On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org>wrote: > Instead of using the FFI, you can also write a library that wraps the > "curl" command-line executable. This has the advantages of keeping large > file I/O out of Racket (lower processing overhead, no GC, schedulable by > the host OS on other CPUs/cores), and of process isolation (i.e., not > having additional C code in the same process as the Racket VM, so that less > risk of the C code causing stability or security programs). > > (There is a somewhat fancy "curl" process Racket library that someone > wrote, but I don't know whether or when they'll be able to open source it. > Probably best to just write a simple one that does what you need.) > > Neil V. > > -- > http://www.neilvandyke.org/ > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/**users <http://lists.racket-lang.org/users> >
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