[racket] racket and libcURL

On Mar 21, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Ray Racine 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

Wait… don't Racket's built-in libraries already handle all of those cases?

This is not a rhetorical question: I'm perfectly happy to be wrong, here, but it looks like I can use get-pure-port or post-pure-port to handle these. I guess I assumed that the original poster wanted something that Racket didn't already include, but I could be wrong: 

Yvan, what's your use case look like? Are there things you want to do that, for instance, get-impure-port doesn't already do?

John

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