From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Gran Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: What new libraries or functionality does Guile need? Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:38:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <809243.47320.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216406368 23436 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2008 18:39:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:39:28 +0000 (UTC) To: Guile User Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 18 20:40:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJus7-0005TJ-GE for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:40:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45856 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJurE-0002QA-JI for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJurB-0002PQ-AE for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:39:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJur9-0002NM-5D for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50245 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJur9-0002NF-2Q for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:39:03 -0400 Original-Received: from web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.91.163]:41103) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJur8-000733-PC for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 48310 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Jul 2008 18:38:56 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=5fCxrcTxGpPGvh7HU1+troajWH0n5Xpg43OZujb4wUasKn3Kh/8KVoOygNpWqojrYVtKowbAKt2OX58BOPky+mQReVSi+8++RtrMFNzhG/RZPxkMffg+EYiS2kO1ZNV/lGSjHLJDyCPZC5KjAmtTXqO6RngeFG+EGqGRgcdTBYI=; Original-Received: from [64.52.12.172] by web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:38:56 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1042.40 YahooMailWebService/0.7.218 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:6672 Archived-At: Julian-=0AThere are a couple of ways to do HTTP client stuff already.=0ATTN= 's Guile-WWW will do http GET.=A0 It has the advantage of being very scheme= y.=0ADepending on you Guile setup, it may need modification.=A0 Last time I= tried to use it some time ago, it back-ported (fore-ported?) easily enough= .=A0 IIRC there was some little thing about macros that needed to be simpli= fied to get it to work.=A0 I don't remember exactly.=A0 It doesn't (or perh= aps didn't) do POST, though.=0AAlternately, Guile-GNOME has the Gnome-vfs i= nterface wrapped.=A0 This does some http client stuff.=0AI think either of = these would be enough for simple things.=0ABut in terms of more featureful = libraries that could be adapted/wrapped, I rather like libcurl.=A0 Bigloo s= cheme has bindings for this one.=A0 It does all the LDAP and https stuff.= =0ABut then again libcurl doesn't do webdav.=0AThe neon client library does= do webdav.=0A-Mike Gran=0A