[Gdal-dev] Method to get a google image by url?

[Joaquim Luis]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> If you have libcurl support included in your GDAL build you can just do:
>
>   gdalinfo 'http://kh.google.com/kh?v=99&n=404&t=tqssrrqstt'
>
> That is, GDAL has a special "HTTP" driver that will fetch from an url
> and access the data from a memory buffer.

Frank,
Thanks that's cool, but before I dig out how to get the image in memory 
let me bug you with one further question.
How do we declare a proxy?
(you command worked at home but not here at the University - firewalls)

Thanks
Joaquim