Hi Alistair,
Is there a simple way to get the contents of a webpage using Haskell on a Windows box?
This isn't exactly what you want, but it gets you partway there. Not sure if LineBuffering or NoBuffering is the best option. Line buffering should be fine for just text output, but if you request a binary object (like an image) then you have to read exactly the number of bytes specified, and no more.
This works great for haskell.org, unfortunately it doesn't work as well with the rest of the web universe. With www.google.com I get: Program error: <handle>: IO.hGetChar: illegal operation With www.slashdot.org I get: 501 Not Implemented returned www.msnbc.msn.com works fine. Any ideas why? Are there any alternatives to read in a file off the internet (i.e. wget but as a library) Thanks Neil