etc.curl: Formal review begin

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-08-23 23:33, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/17/2011 4:12 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> the etc.curl module by Jonas Drewsen is at the front of the review queue.
>
> Thanks for doing this. I preface my remarks with saying I have never
> done http: programming and know little about it.
>
> 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.
>
> 2. I'd like to get the contents as an input range, which I can then
> iterate like any other range.
>
> 3. A lot of web sites like twitter.com have an API. How do I access that
> API from D?

APIs like this, assuming they are RESTful APIs, are accessed via regular 
HTTP methods/verbs, like POST, GET, PUT, DELETE and so on. Your first 
example would be a GET request.

> 4. How do I download a file from ftp?
>
> ubyte[] file = downloadFile("ftp://www.digitalmars.com/whatever.zip");
>
> 5. I'd like an NNTP interface so I can get and post newsgroup messages
> from D, though I suspect that is beyond the scope of etc.curl.


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/Jacob Carlborg