Re: [Boost-users] Grabbing web page content

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-07 10:57:06

Scott Meyers wrote:
> 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.

Why don't you take this example from asio:

http://asio.sourceforge.net/boost_asio_0_3_7/libs/asio/doc/examples/httpclient_sync_client_cpp.html

and factor the guts into a function, say getPageContent just to make something 
up ;-)

Jeff