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On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 12:51 PM Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:40:05AM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote: > > I like the urlmon solution since it doesn't even involve spawning an > > external command, but Win32::API is not in core, is it? So bitsadmin > > might be the simplest and most reliable solution. > > Assuming Microsoft's online fine manuals are accurate, bitsadmin is only > Windows 10 or later, whereas urlmon is XP or later. > > I don't think that bundling Win32::API is a great idea, but a minimal XS > module to wrap what we need does feel like a win here. There doesn't seem > to be one on CPAN (yet). The functions in here: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/cpan/Win32/Win32.xs seem to consist mostly of random things people needed to bootstrap other things. Arguably we now need a Win32::URLDownloadToFile() to bootstrap something. Or maybe Win32::InternetReadFile()[1]. If it's killing a sacred cow to put something else in Win32.xs, someone should speak up. > Not only am I not competent to write such a thing, I can't even volunteer > to have a go at something like "Markov chains and a regression test", as > I don't have access to anything Win32 to try it out. Damn. I have access so I have no excuses :-). Well, other than only ever having dealt with the Win32 API in Visual Basic, and that a very long time ago. Let me see how much trouble I can get myself into. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wininet/nf-wininet-internetreadfileThread Previous | Thread Next