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

Garrett Potts potts at cfl.rr.com
Thu Nov 15 10:01:27 EST 2007


Hello:

I think for any http requests GDAL uses libcurl.  There is a global  
environment variable (I think) that you can set outside your software  
for libcurl to go through a proxy.  Let me dig around real quick


Take care

Garrett

On Nov 15, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Joaquim Luis wrote:

> 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
>
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