Re: tcp4u
Mike, i thought others might want to know the progress on this, so i post to
the listserv....
On 4 May 2001, at 8:49, Sabal Mike wrote:
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Or, i may not wish to exec *any* display scripts?
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> You seem to have an updated version of tcp4u that contains a few bugs. =
> Attached is an (I guess) older version that has worked for me perfectly =
> fine.
>
> The only other thing that may be wrong is setting the proxy address in =
> each program. Tcp4u requires the proxy address to be used on each http =
> call, whereas IE and Netscape set it once and forget about it.
Mike, right out of the unzipped dir, it did the same thing, it said "cannot
resolve host address". I don't wish it to use the proxy, and in IE, the default
right now is not to use the proxy either, and even if it did, the proxy is set
to
"bypass".
When i tried adding the ":80" to the yahoo addy, it got a page, titled:
<html><head><title>Yahoo! Australia & NZ: Incorrect Host in
URL</title><base href="http://au.rd.yahoo.com/"></head>
Apparently, they want us to use http://au.yahoo.com/ now? So i plugged in:
remote_file = "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01001a.htm" *without* the
":80", and it got it ok, an url that EInetLib_full.ew keeps telling me times
out,
but which IE and mirc get fine. Web Shepard (modified to not have a window,
so i may have installed bugs in it myself), is the one that crashes the
computer after a few hundred pages. Then, in get_file.ew, i plugged in:
remote_file =
"http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?from=eng&to=poe&type=text&action
=Translate&text=word%20to%20translate"
to see how confused it would get, and it got it! Of course, i haven't run a few
thousand urls thru it, like i have EInetLib_full.ew, but no doubt i will now!
EInetLib_full.ew has been hitting pages with long urls like that for over a
week now, no puter reboots, and runs fine, 300megabytes+ per day on a
pitiful and buggy dialup. Ray, maybe the wrong beta code of tcp4u got
posted on the RDS page? If i make tcp4u work for me, i can't sell code
based around it, can i?
I don't understand why some programs work on some urls and not others. I
am trying to learn from these programs that others wrote, and hope to write
one that does work on all urls, but i don't know why these don't, and i guess
answering that question is the first step, along with repeatedly testing them.
It seems that there is an unlimited number of ways to get a webpage in
windoze.
I have a backlog of some 18,000 urls now, and someone with a .com emailed
me about mining more for them.
Kat
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