Re: LibURL vs. cURL

2012-08-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Corey wrote: Just to be pedantic you can have libURL on /desktop/ OSes. A significant restriction, for some of us. Not pedantic at all, IMO, but an important point worth mentioning. Given the critical role Internet connectivity plays in mobile apps, arguably even more important than on t

Re: LibURL vs. cURL

2012-08-23 Thread Ken Corey
Just to be pedantic you can have libURL on /desktop/ OSes. A significant restriction, for some of us. liburl is not open source, so we cannot do any of the porting... It's possible to port libcurl to android: http://thesoftwarerogue.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/porting-of-libcurl-to-android-os-using

Re: LibURL vs. cURL

2012-08-23 Thread Bernard Devlin
Curl can use client-side SSL certificates. That was a facility that runrev said they would provide at a future date, but it never appeared (AFAIK), and the indication that it was coming appears to have been removed from the dictionary. With curl it is also possible to use non-blocking POST method

Re: LibURL vs. cURL

2012-08-22 Thread Monte Goulding
On 22/08/2012, at 9:34 AM, Chip Thomas wrote: > *Would anyone here venture an opinion whether libURL or cURL has advantages > over the other in terms of downloading via HTTP? > > Is one more reliable? More robust? More better?* I think it would be a no brainer that curl would be more robust con

Re: LibURL vs. cURL

2012-08-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chip Thomas wrote: *Would anyone here venture an opinion whether libURL or cURL has advantages over the other in terms of downloading via HTTP? Is one more reliable? More robust? More better?* cURL is not available by default on some OSes LiveCode supports including (IIRC) Windows, but with a

LibURL vs. cURL

2012-08-21 Thread Chip Thomas
*Would anyone here venture an opinion whether libURL or cURL has advantages over the other in terms of downloading via HTTP? Is one more reliable? More robust? More better?* ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this ur