Max Bowsher wrote:
Indeed, libcurl was one which came to mind. I've yet to play with it, but one thing I'm a little worried about is it being *too* extensive - I don't want setup.exe to grow very much.
I'm certainly going to look into libcurl, but I'm open to other possibilities too.
Sure, that's a concern. However current setup.exe is only ~270kb when stripped, and even if that, say, doubled I don't see what the big deal would be. It seems to me that being anorexic about the .exe size at the cost of robust net/url code is a premature optimization.
As a test I grabbed the stock 7.12.2 sources and compiled a static libcurl.a with everything but http and ftp support disabled. Before stripping the file is 2.0M, after stripping it's 129k. The corresponding curl.exe is 163k after strip. The only external lib that this .exe depends on is zlib, which is in setup already, no?
Thankyou, those numbers make me feel rather more optimistic about using libcurl in setup.
Max.
