Re: Accessing web with a C program

On Feb 8, 3:40 pm, Christopher Benson-Manica
<a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lew Pitcher <lpitc...@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.

What sort of behaviour would you expect from
FILE *somefile = fopen("C:\\ABC\\DEF\\GHI.J","r");
or
FILE *somefile = fopen("DDNAME:SYSIN,"r");
or
FILE *somefile = fopen("/a/b/c.d","r");
?

What's different (wrt how fopen() is defined in the standard, or how
it is used in real life) betwen these usages and the usage I suggest?

What is your objection to
FILE *web = fopen("http://google.com/","r";);
and why don't you voice similar objections to
FILE *somefile = fopen("C:\\ABC\\DEF\\GHI.J","r");
or
FILE *somefile = fopen("DDNAME:SYSIN,"r");
?

.

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