- From: Girish S <girishpage@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:31:51 -0800 (PST)
- To: Akritidis Xristoforos <cakrit@hol.net>, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
- Cc: www-lib@w3.org
I also switched to libcurl only after learning that Libwww does not re-use session and connections for HTTPS Another prime reason was that Libwww does not support multi-threading and I had to do a lot to work-around it. --- Akritidis Xristoforos <cakrit@hol.net> wrote: > > libwww is a unique library. But it hasn't been > maintained by anybody > > for two years, and that's starting to show. > > > I devoted a full man-month trying to understand > libwww, > writing a function of intermediate complexity > (supporting post requests, xml parsing, > authentication etc.) > and figuring out that the problems I encountered > were due to libwww and not my code. > > I switched to libcurl, rewrote the same code in a > week and haven't > looked back. > Perhaps this library has some features that libcurl > doesn't, though I > didn't have to use them for my needs. > However, for libwww to survive, someone has to focus > on these features > and let libcurl do the rest. > Personally, I can't find any reason to suggest > libwww to anyone. > > Christopher Akritides > Hellas On Line, Greece > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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