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libopennet 0.9.3

Release information:
pkg: libopennet version 0.9.3
url: http://www.rkeene.org/devel/libopennet-0.9.3.tar.gz date: Wed Nov 9 03:24:08 CST 2005

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Libopennet allows you to open_net() urls (or files, for that matter) the same way you would normally open() just files.

Example

#include <opennet.h> int fd; char buf[512];

        fd=open_net("http://www.rkeene.org/", O_RDONLY);
        read_net(fd, &buf, 512);  /* You could just read() it, but read_net 
                                  tries harder to get all 512 bytes. */
        lseek_net(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
        close(fd);

open_net() even parses URLs for certain things:

          @@OSNM@@ = OS Name (linux, freebsd, sunos, etc)
          @@OSVR@@ = OS version (2.2.x, 4.2, 5.8, etc)
          @@OSVS@@ = OS version (short) (2.2, 4.2, 5.8, etc)
          @@ARCH@@ = Arch (i386, sparc64, sun4u, sun4m, etc)
          @@DIST@@ = If OSNM=Linux, distribution of Linux.
          @@ATSN@@ = Put an `@'

So you could open_net("http://www.@@OSNM@@.com/", O_RDONLY);

LIMITATIONS

open_net() only does READ-ONLY with HTTP, and READ or WRITE with FTP (not both) libopennet doesn't do mailto:, or anything besides http and ftp for that matter.

CONTACT

Roy Keene <rkeene_opennet@rkeene.org>