Re: How best to fetch a web page...

["Freddie Unpenstein" <fredderic excite com>]

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:42, Hubert Sokolowski wrote:

> > the easiest way is to use gnet library (www.gnetlibrary.org) that
> > depends on glib.

> The latest GNet release (2.0.5) doesn't have support for http yet
> unfortunately, only the latest snapshot (from Oct 7) has the new
> GConnHttp stuff.

Hmmm.....  Wonder how long that'll take to sift down into my Debian/unstable packages lists.....


> As for fetching a web page by spawning wget, check out the code
> here: http://scentric.net/tmp/spawn-async-with-pipes-gtk.c
> (could be improved by using g_child_watch_add() to find out when
> wget has finished and to get its exit status).

Taking a look-see...  Hmmm.....  Fits the bill quite nicely.  I'll probably use GConnHttp when it gets 
through, I'm already using the GConn stuff in another little project.  But until then, that piece of code 
should prove to be a huge help.  And who knows.  I may even learn to use those GIOChannel things properly.  :)


Fredderic

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