Peter Dimov wrote:
std::ifstream is( "http://www.example.com/file.zip" ); std::ofstream os( "file.zip" ); os << is.rdbuf();
No proposal required, in principle.
Are you aware of (a) ambiguity and (b) potential security hole? (a)
mkdir http: mkdir http:/www.example.com touch http:/www.example.com/file.zip file http://www.example.com/file.zip http://www.example.com/file.zip: empty
(b) If you replace the first line with something more generic, for example with: std::ifstream is( argv[1] ); it becomes unclear that the code might send requests to the net. This can be resolved by additional checks appied to argv[1] or, better yet, with a second agrument to ifstream's ctor that specfify a domain/protofol (local, net, http, ftp and so on). -- Alexander Nasonov Project Manager http://www.akmosoft.com