visiting remote files on webserver

[lee]

Hi,

isn't something like the following already available by default:


(defun my-curl-find-file ()
  "Use curl to retrieve something and create a buffer to display what
was retrieved.

What to use as source and the name of a new buffer to insert the
output of curl into are being read from the minibuffer."
  (interactive)
  (let ((source (read-from-minibuffer "Retrieve: "))
        (dest-buffer-name (read-from-minibuffer "Into buffer: ")))
    (unless (or (string-equal "" source)
                (string-equal "" dest-buffer-name))
      (switch-to-buffer dest-buffer-name)
      (call-process "curl" nil t t "-sS" source))))


Since I couldn't find anything like that as part of emacs, I came up
with the above.  It works fine, though it seems unlikely that this isn't
already implemented.


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