How to download a file from http or ftp server with c program?

[zribiahmed]

Hello,

I am looking for an open source API minimum (point of view size on disk, and complexity) in C (which requires no installation before use) which downloads a file from a http or ftp server (this API will ream being embedded Linux).

Will you advise me how best I should use?

Thank you in advance for your help.

[modoran]

Curl or wget:
http://curl.haxx.se/
As far as I know, wget is preinstalled on most linux distributions.