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Use GLib instead of wget #210

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tintou opened this issue Mar 5, 2019 · 2 comments
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Use GLib instead of wget #210

tintou opened this issue Mar 5, 2019 · 2 comments
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tintou commented Mar 5, 2019

It looks like we are spawning wget to download the documentation instead of just downloading using GLib
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astavale commented Mar 7, 2019

Although using File.new_from_uri ("https://xyz").read () then new DataInputStream () is nice, the GLib GIO uses GVFS as its back end. The GVFS HTTP backend uses libsoup. Is there an advantage to using libsoup directly?

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new_from_uri doesn't work on all workstations, I used it on a project and on some distributions it doesn't work.

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