How to download an URL (cross-platform)

[Simon]

Is there a simple, cross-platform method of downloading an URL. I can
in Python by typing:

data = urllib2.urlopen('www.example.com/example file.html').read()

and I was wondering if there was an easy way to do that in C or C++
(without using some Microsoft/Visual Studio or Mac-only method). If you
know of a way, please reply; thanks in advance.

Simon

 

[Ivan Vecerina]

: Is there a simple, cross-platform method of downloading an URL. I can
: in Python by typing:
:
: data = urllib2.urlopen('www.example.com/example file.html').read()
:
: and I was wondering if there was an easy way to do that in C or C++
: (without using some Microsoft/Visual Studio or Mac-only method). If you
: know of a way, please reply; thanks in advance.

Of course the standard C++ library provides nothing for that, but
cross-platform libraries exist.
A popular choice seems to be libcurl: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/

hth