curl / fcurl

fcurl - fopen, fread, fwrite style functions for URL operations using libcurl

Curl is a command-line tool for transferring data specified with URL syntax. Find out how to use curl by reading the curl.1 man page or the MANUAL document. Find out how to install Curl by reading the INSTALL document.

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fcurl's Issues

Question about using 'restrict' with fcurl_open()

Are you sure you don't want to use restrict, as it shows in the fopen() man page?

FILE *fopen(const char *restrict pathname, const char *restrict mode);

fcurl/src/fcurl.c

Lines 143 to 146 in b50c7e0

	* FILE *fopen(const char *path, const char *mode);
	*/
	struct fcurl_handle *fcurl_open(const char *url, const char *operation)

Add code for fcurl_fgets()

You want a function that essentially does what fgets() does but you don't want to use fgets()?

fcurl/src/fcurl.c

Lines 237 to 244 in b50c7e0

	char *fcurl_fgets(char *ptr, size_t size, struct fcurl_handle *file)
	{
	size_t want = size - 1;/* always need to leave room for zero termination */
	/* add code */
	return ptr;/*success */
	}

I may be able to work on this but I'm not clear yet on the goal.

[REQ] Provide an fseek analogue

I'm not sure if this is out of scope for fcurl or not, but I figured it was worth asking.

Is there any plan to provide an fseek analogue, providing range request support, perhaps? (e.g. fseek to an offset N and read X bytes yields a N to N+X range request). It may be too compilcated to be worth in in this wrapper.

This would also allow fcurl to be registered with fopencookie or funopen, or various libraries which take such callbacks.

Hopefully that made some semblance of sense.

Also apologies if a GitHub issue is not the appropriate place to put this; It wasn't clear from the README if there was a separate mailing list or bug tracker.