[erlang-questions] is there a generic file fetcher anywhere?

[Garrett Smith]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman@REDACTED> wrote:
> Joe Armstrong wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Has anybody written a "generic file fetcher" - I'd like to fetch files
>> or collections of files from various remote locations (Git, SVG, HTTP, FTP
>> etc)
>> handling proxies etc. on the way
>>
>
> Sounds like you're looking for an erlang version of curl (which does, I
> believe, talk git's API).
>
> Maybe run curl through a port?

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