OpenEuphoria

2. Re: read_html routine

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Jun 30, 2000
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On 29 Jun 2000, at 18:03, David Cuny wrote:

> Kat:
>
> Any progress on that networking library I'm too ignorant and lazy to write
> for myself?
>
> You mentioned that you had already coded a read_html() sort of routine.
> Anywhere I could download the code from?

I am tempted to pass the buck from here. I have been spending most of my time
merely keeping a house around me, not writing code. It's prolly been a month
since i
wrote any Eu code.

What i did last winter is an API of sorts to the WebShepard i pointed out
before. It's
not working yet, i was coding towards a web proxy rather than anything else,
with the
API doing bottom level work, and all decisions being done in other code. You
know,
decisions like: "do we send the cookie or not?" or "lets fake the url of the
referring
page!" or "ok, lets dl that .gif file for this page" or "it's javascript, kill
it!" or "that an
advertisement, remove that too". That's a bit lower than REBOL's "read url". 
But a
proxy with a suitable API can just as well save the downloaded page to a file on
the
harddrive, a locked memory location, or pass it across a LAN or DDE pipe, as
well as
to a browser thru the proxy port or as an include file, it can pass the file as
a global var
to the parent file. Like i said before, other internet functions are just a
matter of
protocol, working on those was next, and much the same code is re-useable in the
basic proxy-API, such as "do we send the cookie?" and "what about this redirect
command, go there?".

I plan on being indoors more beginning next month, it's too hot to be outside,
and i
haveto lay off buying building materials and let the credit cards cool off. So
look for
code from me after mid-July. I typically devote winter and summer to writing
code. Is
there a rush for this code?

Kat