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From: Karl Zilles <zilles@1969web.com>
To: Martin Chabr <martin_chabr@yahoo.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Get a page from the Web
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:35:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <436FC8BD.90801@1969web.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051107211906.14100.qmail@web26810.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Martin Chabr wrote:
> I have been looking for ways to get a page in HTML
> from the Web, using an OCaml program, something like
> the following Python snippet:
> 
> import urllib
> URL = "http://www.ibm.com"
> url = urllib.urlopen(URL)
> html = url.read()
> 
> You supply the URL and receive the page in HTML. Is
> there anything simple like that in OCaml?

I use the Ocaml binding to the curl library.  It has worked well for me 
and it can handle high level details like maintaining cookies across 
calls (for session continuity and logins):

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocurl/


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-07 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-07 21:19 Martin Chabr
2005-11-07 21:35 ` Karl Zilles [this message]
2005-11-07 22:10 ` [Caml-list] " Florian Weimer
2005-11-08 10:40   ` Richard Jones
2005-11-09 18:13     ` Ant: " Martin Chabr

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