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

[Frank Warmerdam]

Joaquim Luis wrote:
> Sorry to insist on this but is libcurl support the only condition to 
> access images by url?
> 
> I'm able to access using FWTools but with my build 1.4.3 I get these 
> errors.
> And yes, I checked with the dependency walker that libcurl and zlib1 
> etc... are all  "non red"
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Joaquim
> 
> 
> ERROR 4: `http://kh.google.com/kh?v=99&n=404&t=tqssrrqstt' does not 
> exist in the
> file system,
> and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.
> 
> GDALOpen failed - 4
> `http://kh.google.com/kh?v=99&n=404&t=tqssrrqstt' does not exist in the 
> file sys
> tem,
> and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.

Joaquim,

The other condition is that you need to be using GDAL trunk (aka 1.5).
The HTTP driver does not existing in 1.4.x.

Best regards,
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