Need recomendation for network lib

jpenguin · Post by **jpenguin** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:17 pm

Hi, the game I am working on is going to move from PLIB to irrlicht in a couple versions. I want to code an in-game package manage that will (1) list files from an FTP or HTTP directory, let the user select one, and download the selected file.. Does anyone know of a library (C++, Cross-Platform) that would work with irrlicht for this purpose.

PS-- we already use enet for multiplayer

---jpenguin (OSX packager for STK)

Pyritie · Post by **Pyritie** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:09 pm

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=22658

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:12 pm

no he wants a lib that supports standard http and ftp querrys and irrNet is not providing that at all.

Pyritie · Post by **Pyritie** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:14 pm

Oh, never mind then.

*goes back to his java.net streams*

Nox · Post by **Nox** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:59 pm

May be curl provide that you want.

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:53 pm

Yeah I would recommend cURL aswell.

Brainsaw · Post by **Brainsaw** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:38 am

I would also recommend libcurl. We use this one here in work as well.

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:14 pm

boost::asio is rather low-level but it comes with examples for a simple http-server and http-client. It's far from offering the comfort of libCurl, but if you need to do some more network coding for your game and want to use the same library for that then it might be worth a look.