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Re: front-end of libcurl
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Alexander Barth |
Subject: |
Re: front-end of libcurl |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:02:19 -0400 |
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John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> Yes, I think it would be useful to have this functionality. Probably
> it would be best to have an interface taht is compatible with the
> urlread and urlwrite functions from Matlab. Also, for inclusion with
> Octave it would help for the code to match the style of the rest of
> Octave.
>
I didn't know about urlread and urlwrite in matlab. The download function is
already quite similar
to urlwrite. I will make the interfaces compatible and try to match the coding
style of octave.
> Also, Matlab has a collection of ftp functions. Does libcurl provide
> the functionality needed to implement those features? The ftp
> functions available in Matlab are
>
> ascii binary cd close delete dir
> ftp mget mkdir mput rename rmdir
>
> jwe
>
libcurl allows to send "raw" ftp commands but it is not generic nor a complete
FTP library
(according to http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2003-01/0061.html). Therefore I'm
not sure if libcurl is
the best way to implement matlab's ftp functions.
Alex