From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 27 12:16:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from stlaurent.mindstep.com (stlaurent.mindstep.com [216.18.127.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FDF37B403 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:16:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@netzuno.com) Received: from grouch (grouch.local.mindstep.com [192.168.0.10]) by zunobox.local.mindstep.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 78F92D922 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 19:17:25 +0000 (GMT) From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" To: Subject: libcurl in the base distribution of FreeBSD Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:16:45 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message