Re: [boost] [ann] Urdl - a library for downloading web content

Subject: Re: [boost] [ann] Urdl - a library for downloading web content
From: Christopher Kohlhoff (chris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-18 08:17:46

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:11 +0200, "Philippe Vaucher"
<philippe.vaucher_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> While I totally agree with that, I just want to point out that the
> discussion wether this library should support more protocols than HTTP
> raise a fundamental design issue: if you start to make it support more
> protocols, then you'll end with something like libcurl (which is a
> very nice library), and if that's the case it might be simpler to
> write a boost libcurl wrapper (the current c++ wrapper of libcurl
> aren't very nicely designed).

That doesn't exactly meet the design goal of being an example for (and
integrating with) Boost.Asio :)

Cheers,
Chris