Re: [Boost-users] Grabbing web page content

From: Marshall Clow (marshall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-06 21:39:04

>I'm looking for an easy way to grab the contents of a web page, 
>i.e., something
>like this (ignoring error handling):
>
>std::string pageContent =
>    getPageContent("http://www.interestingsite.com/funkypage.html");
>
>Is there a Boost library that will give me this kind of interface? 
>I know I can
>build this on top of asio, but I'd prefer something where I don't have to do
>much more work than the above.  If there's no Boost library, I'd welcome
>suggestions for other cross-platform ways to achieve this.

Most Un*x systems have libcurl, which will do this.
I don't know about Windows, but this looks promising 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/curl/>
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