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List:       webkit-dev
Subject:    [webkit-dev] Regarding WebKit Support Libraries
From:       guenter.obiltschnig () appinf ! com (Guenter Obiltschnig)
Date:       2008-02-17 21:20:46
Message-ID: 3FB26EEE-C623-4744-99A5-79E8B2281B86 () appinf ! com
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Hi there,

Another option/alternative to Curl would be POCO - <http://pocoproject.org 
 >. It has the advantage of being nice C++ cross-platform code,  
available for all major platforms. Already has nice HTTP(S) and FTP  
client support.

G?nter

On Feb 17, 2008, at 18:15 , Daniel Zucker wrote:

> Hi Alp and Brent,
>
> My vote is to use Wininet.
>
> This is because my objective is to eventually support a WinCE  
> version.  Wininet is used in both Win32 and WinCE, so it is a  
> convenient choice from this point of view.
>
> CURL would be OK if it could be easily ported to WinCE.  I haven't  
> looked into that, so I don't know the difficulty.  But, I suspect it  
> is non-trivial.  Also, it would have the downside of requiring extra  
> code which increases the static application size.  (Static  
> application size is an important consideration for mobile use cases).
>
> So, I vote for using Wininet.  There was Wininet support in the  
> codebase earlier.  I believe this could be resurrected without too  
> much trouble.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan


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