Re: Accessing web with a C program

Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You /should/ be able to
FILE *web = fopen("http://google.com/","r";);
and have a valid read connection to the named web page.

Should? I'm curious, what argues for this behavior? I certainly
wouldn't expect it from fopen() regardless of whether it was commonly
implemented or not.

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