Re: [squid-users] Using Squid as a library

I would probably start with the Jigsaw HTTP client library (included in the
Jigsaw HTTP server), but to be honest I am not a Java programmer and has
never looked at this.

Regards
Henrik

tc8@staffs.ac.uk wrote:
> Are there any recomended Java libraries?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
> Quoting Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com>:
> > James Gallagher wrote:
> > > I've used libwww and switched from it because I needed a library that
> > > was thread-safe.
> >
> > Then Squid is defenitely out of the question (the Squid code is not at
> > all thread-safe).
> >
> > > I'm using libcurl, but if you know of other libraries,
> > > I'd really like some more suggestions. I'm thinking of using the
> > > HTCache code from libwww but that will require significant mods; maybe
> > > another library will have a cache implementation that's simpler to
> > > adapt.
> >
> > You seem to have covered the ones I have used, but there is a couple of
> > other
> >
> > libraries.
> >
> > * KDE includes a communication framework for fetching content, including
> > HTTP/1.1 and many other protocols. This is most likely a threads-safe
> > environment.
> > * I think Gnome also includes such a library.
> > * Mozilla includes a HTTP library. Used by some applications. I don't
> > know if
> >
> > this is threaded or if it is using "Netscape Threads" psuedo-threading.
> > * If you want to program in Java then there is several libraries..
> >
> > Freshmeat also lists several HTTP libraries..
> >
> > Regards
> > Henrik
>
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Received on Wed Aug 28 2002 - 07:08:24 MDT