libhttp

[harpo@udlug.org]

> Alan> Hi folks, I was recentely hacking together a shared library that
> Alan> could be used in c/c++ applications to do http transfers,
> Alan> similar to how wget works (for those that have used it).
> 
> It's a bit hard to believe that something very similar doesn't already
> exist. 

It does,  actually:

Package: libcurl2-ssl
Description: Multi-protocol file transfer library. (SSL support)
 This package includes shared version of the libcurl library.
 .
 libcurl is designed and meant to become a solid, usable and reliable
 multi-protocol file transfer library for URL syntax defined files.
 .
 Shared library *with* SSL support.

-- 
					thanks,
		
					Will