Hello all

I need to work with http manager in linux which is to be equavalent to
WinHTTP in windows.

I am looking for the library that provides the APIs for http manager in linux

Please let me know if any such http library available and let me know
if any more information required.

Thanks

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A.Rajesh Khanna

if you tell us what WinHTTP does, we can tell you how to do it in Linux.

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J Suresh Kumar
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I think, suresh is talking about
About WinHTTP (Windows)

WinHTTP what i meant is given in
About WinHTTP (Windows)

Microsoft Windows HTTP Services (WinHTTP) provides developers with an
HTTP client application programming interface (API) to send requests through the HTTP protocol to other HTTP servers.

WinHTTP supports desktop client applications, Windows services, and
Windows server-based applications.

I hope Apache is a web server application and not suitable for my requirement.

Please let me know if any more ideas.

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A.Rajesh Khanna

As someone said curl can do this.

a) curl
cURL and libcurl

wget can as well.

b) wget
GNU Wget

And so can lftp.

c) lftp
LFTP - sophisticated file transfer program

I have had to do this long long ago and I found curl to be quite useful.
You can even store and send the auth cookie in the header thereby
simulating a user's logged in session.

Look for curl's '-H', '-A' and '-b' switches.


Correct.


curl is very powerful and you can write any application that uses HTTP,
FTP and several other protocols.

It also lends to easy scriptability.

Whereas tools like wget and lftp are geared towards end user.

Best of luck!

I could see that curl,wget are command line tools that uses http, etc
protocol.and are end user commands.

Please let me know the if my understanding is wrong.

The WinHTTP APIs in windows are given below.

WinHttpOpen
WinHttpOpen
WinHttpConnect
WinHttpOpenRequest
WinHttpSendRequest
WinHTTP Functions (Windows)

I need corresponding APIs in Linux to develop my application.

I have also looked into 'wget source code' and found that the http
requests are done with socket calls and ultimately read/write the data
stream from/to fd.

Is this the only method to work out ? if so, i have to develop my own
APIs and then work application Or else please let me know if any APIs
readily available.


Thanks

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A.Rajesh Khanna

In that case use libcurl. libcurl is the library used by curl to do
all its HTTP connections. Its pretty easy to use if you spend some
time with the documentation.

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J Suresh Kumar
Google Hacks

Well, I what i would like to tell you about Apache is -
Its Apache - HTTPClient for Java.
Its the WinHTTP for the Java World.
Apache has a whole bunch of software available under its umbrella and it is not restricted to Apache webserver, which is the main product of the
group.

Thank you