Re: HTTP library reccommendations

[Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>]

On 9/7/11 9:34 AM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Trimble, Nathan G wrote:
>
> > I have a need to perform a couple HTTP operations from code in our Wireshark plugin.  I am wondering if Wireshark 
> > already depends on any libraries that support HTTP.
>
> It does not.  There are some UI items that will hand a URL to the desktop environment's "open a URL" operation, but 
> that relies on the user's chosen browser to do all the work and open a window to display the URL; it does not do any 
> of the work of fetching or displaying the page itself (and it shouldn't - it should have the user's browser do it).
>
> > If there are not any existing dependencies that would support an HTTP GET and PUT, do you have any recommendations?
>
> No, I don't.

You might be able to do this via the GFile routines in GIO (e.g.
g_file_new_for_uri + g_file_read_async). Unfortunately the documentation
seems to go out of its way to avoid specific use cases, e.g. reading a
file over HTTP:

http://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GFile.html
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