[MPlayer-dev-eng] More On Automatic Codec Downloader

[Aubin Paul]

Libcurl might be the idea solution; it has a nice C API, supports just 
about every HTTP function, and wouldn't require an external program to 
run. It would probably be easier than piping a wget session too.

Aubin


On Monday, March 11, 2002, at 05:16  PM, Mike Melanson wrote:

> On 11 Mar 2002, Daniel Egger wrote:
>
>> Anyway, that's way off topic. Since the downloader is an optional
>> feature and not a requirement it shouldn't matter whether it needs
>> perl or not; better use wget though....
>
> 	This would be nice, and I've started to toy with it. Wget knows
> how to follow HTTP redirections, so it could make the initial request, 
> get
> the redirect, and download the CAB file. However, I can't figure out how
> to make wget send a POST request. True, a POST request is supposed to be
> interchangeable with a properly-coded GET request, but Microsoft's 
> server
> responds with nonsense in my cursory experiment with the approach.
> However, maybe I need to forge the same HTTP headers that WMP sends
> (which wget can do). I'll experiment later.
>
> 	Thanks...
> --
> 	-Mike Melanson
>
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