Simple HTTP support

[Jonas Drewsen]

On 25/02/11 21.11, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-02-25 17:36, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
>> On 25/02/11 16.01, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 2/25/11 8:48 AM, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
>> Libcurl declarations could be a way forward. As far as I can see from
>> the phobos makefiles there really isn't any dependencies on anything
>> other than standard system libraries and zlib. In order to support the
>> full curl API the following libs are listed as optional dependencies.
>>
>> I guess it would not be a good idea to include the source for all these
>> like it is done with zlib in etc. So how should this be handled? Should
>> all optional deps just be opted out? Alternatively they could be
>> statically linked in the binary distribution of phobos?
>>
>> /Jonas
>
> Tango uses zlib and OpenSSL. I you want to use the modules that uses
> those libraries you just have to link to them. If you don't use them you
> don't have to do anything. Of curse, this is as long as Phobos is static
> library. When I think about it maybe Tango dynamically links to OpenSSL
> and statically to zlib.

I'll give the tango version a look.

thanks
/Jonas