I wrote my own library for that: https://github.com/benibela/internettools https://github.com/benibela/internettools On Windows it is a wrapper around wininet

I wrote my own library for that: https://github.com/benibela/internettools https://github.com/benibela/internettools On Windows it is a wrapper around wininet and on Linux around another library Synapse. The HTTP client is in the directory internet, the HTML/XPath parser in the directory data.