Re: Handling HTTP communications using Euphoria

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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

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