Question

I am a native windows programmer and I was just starting to develop some applications on linux. I was wondering if there is a linux function similar to InternetOpenUrl(). I wanted to use this so I could open the Speakeasy speed test to download random images according to size to “speed test” internet connections. If there isn’t a similar command does anyone have some C code for initiating a http socket to a server to download a file (or code to do the same on a ftp although i rather not use ftp). I would rather use the InternetOpenUrl() alternative if there is one but i am also open to other methods as well.

Answer 1

You’re looking for libcurl, which incidentally also works on Windows.