Re: LYNX-DEV http programming

[Wayne Buttles]

On Thu, 19 Mar 1998 address@hidden wrote:

> I am very interested in writing a browser 
> myself.  Possibly with svgalib support.  Possibly under djgpp.  But I 
> would like to write a simple graphical browser without so many bells 
> and whistles as the normal ones, that is smaller than a meg.  I have 
> looked at the code to lynx, but it has certainly grown since I first 
> saw it many years ago.  Can anyone help me with info as to a location 
> for a library that can request html documents and images that 
> wouldn't be too complicated.

If you use djgpp and the tcplib that is listed off the main djgpp pages,
it comes with htget in source which is JUST the code to grab HTTP objects.
The rest of the work (implementing the HTML parser) would be up to you.