[Spice-devel] allow config download with https

[Dietmar Maurer]

> > >I guess gio/gvfs should be able to
> > > fetch files from http[s] (no libcurl please ;). Is it what you
> > >(Dietmar) are  looking for?
> >
> > Why gvfs? libcurl look much simpler.
> 
> libcurl would look a bit alien in the rest of the code base, and if we ever
> want to do the download asynchronously, we won't get integration with the
> glib mainloop for free, ... 

Oh, I thought the libcurl async code is quite easy to use with any event loop
(but I never tried that myself).