[racket] require url?

It has been talked about a lot, but no-one has implemented this
feature AFAIK. Should be possible, as require is extensible.

Go for it, tiger ;-)

N.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Eric Tanter <etanter at dcc.uchile.cl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In the same way that it is possible to require a file given a local path:
> eg.
> (require (file "/home/..../foo.rkt"))
>
> I'm looking for a way to require a file given a URL:
> eg.
> (require (url "http://tmp.barzilay.org/defmac.ss"))
>
> The above does not work because url is not a require sub-form. file doesn't work either because it seems to convert the URL to a local path
> ("/http:/tmp.barzilay.org/defmac.rkt")
>
> Is there a way to do that?
> I know that the best option is a planet package, but that's a bit heavyweight for my current needs.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Éric