Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Thu, 01 Apr 2004

A new release of CURLHandle

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Deep down in the core of Watson, along with tons of other Mac applications that connect to the Internet (Aizai, Spring, Konfabulator, Comictastic, Pod2Go, PodNews 3, Suck it Down , HenWen, PhotoStickies, MakingMusic, EarthLink TotalAccess 2004, devPush, iScrobbler, WuffCam, iConquer 2, pMpost, Dejal Simon, MailPictures, Babelizer, and probably more) is an open-source piece of Cocoa code called CURLHandle, which is itself a wrapper around the open-source library, curl, that handles connections to the Internet.

And today ... again, no kidding! ... I've released version 1.9 of CURLHandle. If there are any Cocoa developers who want to utilize curl's functionality, this may be of use to you. Of course, this class was originally built during Watson's development timeframe back in the days of Mac OS X 10.0, when Cocoa didn't provide enough for what Watson needed. Apple has since improved their story, so new software development can probably use Apple's toolkit rather than CURLHandle. Still, CURLHandle may have life in it yet....