Re: Downloading a file from a URL from the web with http-get

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi,

On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:46:46 -0700 Mike Gran <address@hidden> wrote:

>> On Friday, August 15, 2014 11:16 AM, 白熊 <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Is there a way to use similar syntax to download ftp files? 
>> I can successfully download only http:// files this way. 
>
> I don't know if anyone has a pure Scheme code solution to handle FTP.
>
> There was once a binding to the libcurl library that could do FTP and TFTP,
> but it would requiring compiling and installing a binary extension.  So, it
> is not very convenient.  But, there's some info here:
>
> http://www.lonelycactus.com/guile-curl.html
>
> I haven't tried it lately, though.

There's a pure Scheme implementation for CHICKEN [1].  Maybe it can be
ported to Guile.  I haven't used it, though, so I can't tell you about
its working status.

[1] http://wiki.call-cc.org/egg/ftp (code here:
http://bugs.call-cc.org/browser/release/4/ftp/trunk/ftp.scm).

Best wishes.
Mario
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