Re: Handling HTTP communications using Euphoria
- Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Oct 17, 2004
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On 17 Oct 2004, at 5:25, irv mullins wrote: > > > posted by: irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> > > John Dutcher wrote: > > > > > > Just looking for input on trying to use Euphoria (as opposed to > > Python or Rebol) to handle a task at my employers'. We need to > > programatically simulate a desktop operator keying input into a web page, > > sending the page via HTTPS, receiving the returned HTTP response and taking > > action (if the response is good we read another input record from a file and > > repeat). I have several web pages up using Python, CGI and various HTTP web > > servers...... but here there is no browser involved, no HTTP server just a > > program running that can do HTTP interactions. Don't want to suggest this is > > doable in Euphoria (with enough included ".e" files (?) if it's really not > > likely to be reasonably possible. > > It's certainly possible, but not practical. You could do it much more > quickly using Rebol or Python, depending on which one you are > most familiar with. This sounds like the type of thing that Kat does, > perhaps you could hire her to do the job. I haven't tried https in Eu yet, i just haven't had the need. For normal http use i gave up on Eu web programs working properly and i use wget.exe for all new code. There are a lot of tcp libs in the archives, but none do https that i am aware of. Kat