New features(?) about curl

[jeroen]

I rather keep this package clean and only implement the essential low-level bindings to libcurl so that the package will be low maintenance once it is done. URL escaping has already been implemented a dozen times, for example URLencode and URLdecode in base, or encodeURI in httpuv. If you want to redo that or add other misc stuff, perhaps it's better to do that in a separate package.

[Ironholds]

Sure, except URL escaping in base R is fundamentally broken ;p. I actually already took your advice; if you don't want to bind in curl_easy_escape et al, that's probably fine.

[jeroen]

Very cool. I think it's indeed better to implement this yourself, rather than dragging in a heavy dependency like libcurl to do something pretty trivial.