[racket] racket and libcURL

Adding... The HTTPClient library seamlessly supports GZIP, HTTPS and
Chunked-Encoding.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Ray Racine <ray.racine at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an HTTPClient library that works for GET, PUT, POST for most use
> cases where one would use an embedding of a wrapped curl.
>
> It understands chunked encoding and "pipes" the de-chunked HTTP stream to
> a port automatically  So for example, you can do a GET of a large file and
> stream it to disc without reading the entire file into a byte buffer.  It
> also works with HTTPS as well.
>
> Bad news it is still in unpolished at the API level, with limited
> scribblings for doc.  But I use it quite heavily for AWS REST API
> integration, web scrapping runs of several hours in duration and it is
> stable and reasonably fast.
>
> https://github.com/RayRacine/racketlib/tree/master/httpclient
>
> Ray
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org>wrote:
>
>> Instead of using the FFI, you can also write a library that wraps the
>> "curl" command-line executable.  This has the advantages of keeping large
>> file I/O out of Racket (lower processing overhead, no GC, schedulable by
>> the host OS on other CPUs/cores), and of process isolation (i.e., not
>> having additional C code in the same process as the Racket VM, so that less
>> risk of the C code causing stability or security programs).
>>
>> (There is a somewhat fancy "curl" process Racket library that someone
>> wrote, but I don't know whether or when they'll be able to open source it.
>>  Probably best to just write a simple one that does what you need.)
>>
>> Neil V.
>>
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