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Re: Reading HTML (web) page through socket [message #59801]

Thu, 10 April 2008 04:05

rhyme2ri2
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Registered: February 2008

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On Apr 10, 12:34 am, Jean H <jghas...@DELTHIS.ucalgary.ANDTHIS.ca>
wrote:
> rhyme2ri2 wrote:
>> Hello all,
>
>> I want to read an html(web) page. I am able to do this using socket
>> but the problem is that i don't know the size of the page. Is there
>> any possible way to know the size of page before reading it using
>> sockets. The size is needed as i need to allocate buffer on the basis
>> of this size.
>
>> Or, if there is a better way to read an html(web) page in idl then
>> please let me know.
>
>> Thanks & Regards
>> -Ritu
>
> If you have IDL 6.4 and up, you can use:
>
> url = 'http://www.google.com'
> ourl = obj_new('IDLnetURL')
> content = ourl->get(url=url, filename = outName)
> obj_destroy, ourl
>
> the whole page (and HTML code) is saved in the variable content, no
> matter what size it is!
>
> Jean

Yup....

I know abt that....but to my bad luck I'v to use IDL 6.3..

But then I got one routine named webget() which does the same
functionality..

Regards
-Ritu8

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