I am thinking about working up some screen-scraping code in Squeak,  
and have been reviewing the HTTP functionality of the core image.   
For my purposes, I'll be needing to do some detailed HTTPs  
transactions, cookie retreival and maintenance, and so forth.   
HTTPSocket doesn't seem to do the deed as transparently as I would like.

I was inclined to rewrite the code in Smalltalk, and it occurred to  
me that so much of this has already been done in Curl, that it may  
make much more sense to build a plugin to the three or so simple  
calls necessary to do synchronous data requests.  Accordingly, I'm  
more inclined to write the plugin, and wrap it in a pretty package  
for general use.

Has anybody trodden down this road before?  Any thoughts about the  
benefits/utility/downsides of building the libcurl plugin?