etc.curl: Formal review begin

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Aug 23 18:24:58 PDT 2011


On 8/23/2011 2:33 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 1. The first, most obvious thing I'd like to do is present a URL and get a
> string back that is the contents of that web page:
>
> string contents = getURL("http://www.digitalmars.com");
>
> and contents[] should be the web page; what I'd see if I opened it in a browser
> and selected "view source". From perusing the etc.curl doc I have absolutely no
> idea how to do this.

I should add that this should be multithreadable, as I expect calls to curl from 
multiple threads and they should not step on each other.


> 3. A lot of web sites like twitter.com have an API. How do I access that API
> from D?

For example, I'd like a program that I can write and run like:

    tweet WalterBright -pw=1234 "I had eggs for breakfast"

This could be in the D samples directory.


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