Webpage Input

[Umesh]

Is there any library which enables user to open a html file from
internet as input?

 

[Malcolm McLean]

Is there any library which enables user to open a html file from
internet as input?

Yes. In an ideal world fopen(http://www.xxxxx, "r") would do it. In practise
you need a socket library, which in non-standard and slightly different on
Windows, Linux, or Macs, so repost to a group for your operating system.

 

[Richard Bos]

Is there any library which enables user to open a html file from
internet as input?

None which is portable, and since various computer systems handle
networking, TCP/IP, and HTTP requests differently (and many don't even
allow (or for that matter are capable of) any of that at all), there
cannot be. Any system which can get a file off a web server - the type
of contents will probably not matter much for this, BTW - is likely to
have a library to let you do so, but it's not going to work on other
OSes. So ask in a newsgroup dedicated to your OS; possibly
comp.unix.programmer, possibly microsoft.programmer.buzzword-du-jour.

Richard

[ Ping Steve Summit: is this not a FAQ, and should it not therefore be
in section 19? ]

 

[santosh]

Is there any library which enables user to open a html file from
internet as input?

Under UNIX consider using cURL or Wget.

<http://curl.haxx.se/>
<http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>

At least one of them is likely to be available on most UNIX systems.

For details switch to a group like <
For Windows, ask in a Windows group like
<news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32>