Backblaze CTO here.... > I found libcurl difficult to use in 'C' Umm.... it is literally the most simple API that could possibly exist? Here are the four lin

Backblaze CTO here.... > I found libcurl difficult to use in 'C' Umm.... it is literally the most simple API that could possibly exist? Here are the four lines in 'C' to fetch a URL: curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_SSL); // do this once inside of "main()" CURL ch = curl_easy_init(); curl_easy_setopt(ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.google.com"); http://www.google.com"); int res = curl_easy_perform(ch); I'm not sure how you could fetch a URL without initializing the library or specifying the URL?? It is like profoundly the most simple API that could possibly exist, I challenge you to specify any imagined API that is shorter or more simple or more straight-forward??! The nice thing about the libcurl API is the above works and is the "base" concept, but if you want to specify something like a "network throttle" to be polite to other things on the network, you just start adding one extra line at a time to the above code: curl_easy_setopt(ch, CURLOPT_MAX_SEND_SPEED_LARGE, (curl_off_t) (256 * 1024)); // 256 kbits/sec