Re: front-end of libcurl

[Alexander Barth]

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