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>> WINDOWS: [system] (in the "motex" library)
>> LINUX & OSX: [shell] (in the "ggee" library)
>
> Yes, you can, but it is not portable (as it requires different
> solutions depending on platform) and requires additional filesystem
> interactions. Using [shell] (or [system] for that matter) has all kinds
> of side effects, like [shell] searches scripts relative to Pd start
> location instead of relative to Pd patch. I wouldn't recommend using
> those
you are right, it's more like a workaround/hack in case nothing else
works. and it involves some tweaking, that's true.
for the purpose of http-downloading, one would also need a 3rd party
commandline program like "wget" (at least for windows, as it's not native).
I was looking into making a [httpsget] external but the whole TLS thing seems very difficult.
For my purposes on linux I use [shell] with wget to save the data to a file, then open it with [binfile].
I was wondering if there is some cross-platform library to do the ssh, as I'm sure implementing it from scratch would take forever and be very error-prone. Not to mention doing it using vanilla objects....
Martin