OpenEuphoria

Re: Internet Access

• Posted by Brian Jackson <bjackson at 2FARGON.COM> Jun 15, 2000
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 03:26:36 -0700, David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> wrote:

>[Warning: This is as really a long-winded wish list disguised as a
question]
>
>I've been reading (with some amount of envy) about the Rebol language
>(http://www.rebol.com). Stuff like web access, ftp and email all appear
>trivial in Rebol. Here's an example script that reads the raw contents of
an
>html file and emails it:
>
>send luke at rebol.com read http://www.rebol.com/releases.html
>
>Rebol supports at the following, across various platforms:
>
>   HTTP (web)
>   SMPT (sending email)
>   POP (reading email)
>   FTP (file transfer)
>   NNTP (news)
>
>It seems to me that it would be a Good Thing if Euphoria also supported
>these in a uniform, cross-platform manner.
>
>Some of this no doubt exists already, and I'm simply to dense to understand
>it. So I'm hoping that people can whack me with a clue stick and help me
out
>here.
>
>I'm primarily interested in being able to read web pages. I was thinking of
>something along the lines of:
>
>   read_http( <web address> )
>
>that would return the contents a file from the web. The application I had
in
>mind would read through a bulletin board and gather conversation threads
for
>off-site viewing.
>
>
>[Question: If the page required cookies, would the routine have to accept
>cookies in order to work?]
>
>
>Anyhoo, I took a look at Daniel Bernstein's EuFTP package, but that deals
>with FTP, not HTTP.
>
>[Taking a stroll into Wish List Land...]
>
>For completeness, we also need:
>
>   read_ftp()
>   read_binary_ftp()
>   write_ftp()
>   write_binary_ftp()
>
>And since Rebol provides an interface to email, of course I want Euphoria
to
>provide that as well.  Stealing shamelessly, I was thinking of something
>like:
>
>   open_mailbox() -- open a mailbox for reading
>   clear_mailbox() -- empty a mailbox
>   write_mailbox() -- send a message to a mailbox
>   read_mailbox() -- read the current message in the mailbox
>   remove_mailbox() -- remove item from mailbox
>   next_mailbox() -- read the next message in the mailbox
>   close_mailbox() -- close a mailbox
>
>I took a brief look at the email demo that Robert includes with Euphoria.
Is
>there a special reason why the message goes to my Outbox, instead of being
>send immediately? Where can I get more information on this protocol?
>
>
>[End of Soap Box/Wish List]
>
>If someone could point me in the right direction for writing a read_http()
>function, I'd appreciate it.
>
>Additionally, I'm wondering if there actually is any interest in putting
>together a cross-platform library of Rebol-like web functions for Euphoria.
>
>-- David Cuny

David,

Try searching MSDN for the winInet (Windows Internet transfer) control
documentation.  It has wrappers for the HTTP, FTP, and GOPHER protocols.

Brian Jackson