libcurl, etc

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:36:15AM +0000, Graham Klyne wrote:
> David,
> 
> on a whim I took a look at your website, and came across darcs, which it is 
> claimed is:
> (a) written in Haskell, and
> (b) uses libcurl
> 
> Does this mean you have a Haskell binding for libcurl?  If so, it it for 
> just GHC, or is it a fully-generalized FFI with (say) Hugs support as 
> well?

Well, I have a very limited binding to libcurl, that's actually a bit ugly.
I use ffi, and wrote two functions in C.  One initializes curl, and saves a
curl handle in a static global variable (so that curl can use a single http
session for several file downloads).  Another downloads a URL and saves it
as a file.  This second function involves four separate libcurl calls.  For
me (and perhaps for most libcurl users) this is enough.

> Does it work for Windows as well as Unix/Linux?

Yes.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org