[Haskell-cafe] Simple HTTP lib for Windows?

[Yitzchak Gale]

Alistair Bayley wrote:
>> I'd like to write a very simple Haskell script that when given a URL, looks
>> up the page, and returns a string of HTML. I don't see an HTTP library in
>> the standard libs...

Neil Mitchell wrote:
> MissingH?

MissingPy.

It would be great to have a full-featured native library that
handles all of the subtleties - redirects, cookies, etc.
But it could be that the most robust solution
currently is still the following:

(Using -package MissingPY)

import Python.Interpreter
import Python.Objects

main = do
  py_initialize
  pyImport "urllib2"
  ...

getHtml :: String -> IO String
getHtml url = do
  urlObj <- toPyObject url
  handle <- callByName "urllib2.urlopen" [urlObj] []
  r <- getattr handle "read"
  pyObject_Call r [] [] >>= strOf


Regards,
Yitz