On 16/11/2011 01:55 PM, nemesis wrote:

> Besides builtin http clients being pretty much a given in any modern programming
> environment (including C++ boost if I'm not wrong),

It appears you're wrong. Boost doesn't seem to include any HTTP 
functionality that I can see.

> there's also command-line tools such as wget.

Amusingly, Haskell actually has a libcurl binding. Guess what? Doesn't 
work on Windows. :-P

I hadn't thought about trying wget though - that probably wouldn't be 
too hard. (The tricky part is running an external OS process and then 
trying to figure out whether the **** it actually worked OK or not.) 
Given that all I want to do is generate 30 URLs and have each one 
downloaded to a file, that probably wouldn't be too hard.

> No need to write a half-baked unoptmized attempt these days. :)

Downloading 30 files, of 2KB each, is not exactly something that 
requires "optimising".

The text processing that happens after that? I could have made it a lot 
faster. But since I only need to run it once, I didn't bother.

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