{- |

Module : $Header$

Description : wrapper for simple http

Copyright : (c) Christian Maeder 2013

License : GPLv2 or higher, see LICENSE.txt

Maintainer : Christian.Maeder@dfki.de

Stability : provisional

Portability : non-portable (uses package HTTP)

-}

module Common.Http where

import Common.Utils

import System.Exit

loadFromUri :: String -> IO (Either String String)

loadFromUri str = do

(code, out, err) <- executeProcess "wget"

["--header=\"Accept: */*; q=0.1, text/plain\"",

"--no-check-certificate", "-O", "-", str] ""

return $ case code of

ExitSuccess -> Right out

_ -> Left err