URL from C++

["Madhu M. Kurup" <madhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks,

	I was hoping someone will be able to give me some info on how I
could programmatically extract the contents of a URL if you are coding in
C++ on Linux. I want to do something on the lines of 

system("wget http://www.slashdot.org";);

	But without being so clunky or gross. This is incidentally for the
Haiku generation challenge posted at /. ;-) The URL is

http://www.dotcomma.org/challenges/challenge.php?id=1

	for those who haven't been there yet.

Cheerio,
M
  
   Madhu M Kurup /* Nemo Me Impune Lacessit */ madhu@xxxxxxxxxxx