I'm developing an XML library that needs to be portable. I've been using the
standard library and boost::shared_ptr. Now I have a problem, I need to be
able to get a document, an external DTD in this case, referenced by a URL.
There is no standard way to do this and this makes the cross platform
development next to impossible. In comparison Java has a class for this
built into it's i/o class hierarchy.

After reading the proposals for the library TR, I wonder why a rather basic
extension to the iostream classes to allow for http requests is not in it?
Is there some basic problem that I'm missing?

Ken

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