Re: A more general question about curl

madmurphy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.gnunet.devel
Message-ID <CAExyPMfZ=Yr_t5wYhMxp3uBTiYJOcHYWYOGTxgSSJOsxQQs9Rg@mail.gmail.com>
I never used the curl API, so I don't know what the multi interface is, but
if I remember correctly wget2 introduced non-blocking sockets. That's all I
know. I did not find a lot of info on Google, except maybe for this email
on gnutls mailing list:
https://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-devel/2019-June/014051.html

--madmurphy

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 2:54 PM Schanzenbach, Martin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> We need a non-blocking API such as curl_multi.
> Last time I checked, libwget2 does not have that.
>
> BR
>
> > On 7. Sep 2022, at 15:46, madmurphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know all the reasons behind using curl and all GNUnet's
> requirements, but have you guys thought about switching to wget2? It is a
> GNU package and has a nice library (libwget). It supports GNU TLS natively,
> it is supposed to download faster than curl, and if a minor feature is
> missing it might be an opportunity to make libwget grow.
> >
> > A comparison table (by curl):
> >
> > https://curl.se/docs/comparison-table.html
> >
> > --madmurphy
>
>
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