fcurl

The fopen, fread, fwrite et all functions are common and a standard "idiom" in many C programs.

By providing fcurl* functions with the same general behavior as the file based versions, but instead allowing URLs where file names are otherwise used, this is an attempt to allow existing file-based applications to switch over to read and write files over common internet protocols instead.

API

Maybe something like this?

FCURL *fcurl_open(const char *path, const char *mode);

size_t fcurl_read(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, FCURL *stream);

size_t fcurl_write(const void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb,
                   FCURL *stream);

int fcurl_flush(FCURL *stream);

int fcurl_close(FCURL *stream);

int fcurl_getc(FCURL *stream);

char *fcurl_gets(char *s, int size, FCURL *stream);

int fcurl_ungetc(int c, FCURL *stream);

int fcurl_seek(FCURL *stream, long offset, int whence);

long fcurl_tell(FCURL *stream);

void fcurl_rewind(FCURL *stream);

int fcurl_getpos(FCURL *stream, fpos_t *pos);

int fcurl_setpos(FCURL *stream, const fpos_t *pos);