[Haskell-cafe] Simple HTTP lib for Windows?

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

> > My standard solution was to invoke wget, but a Haskell solution would
> > be nicer. For my purpose following redirects etc. isn't required, so
> > thanks very much for your help. I will be releasing this function as
> > part of a library shortly, so will be giving you credit for your help!

> Good god, no! The code was merely meant to illustrate how a really basic
> HTTP GET might work. It certainly doesn't deal with a lot of the
> additional cases, like redirects and resource moves, and
> non-standards-compliant HTTP servers. I'm no HTTP expert, so for all I
> know this example code is likely non-standards-compliant too. It really
> only works for a very straightforward text file GET, and there's no
> exception or error handling, or any of the more interesting cases.

But at the same time its the best solution available without going to
much pain and C libraries. I would love something more robust and
equally simple, but haven't found it.

The library I am writing is one to parse and extract information from
HTML documents, the fact that I can now download web pages merely
makes the examples I give more interesting - its not the fundamental
essence of the library.

Thanks

Neil