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Re: Reading HTML (web) page through socket [message #59815 is a reply to message #59801]

Wed, 09 April 2008 12:34

Jean H.
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Registered: July 2006

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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

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		Re: Reading HTML (web) page through socket By: rhyme2ri2 on Thu, 10 April 2008 04:05
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