How to use HTTPObjects

[otto-san]

The title pretty much says what I want to do.

How would I connect to a web page, read the text on it, and then send it to blockland?

if anyone can help me with this, i'd be very thankful.

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[MegaScientifical]

Webpages come as HTML. You need an HTML Parser to display it, and Ephialtes himself said that would be impractical in Torquescript. Indeed, it would be... I can see the problems in it...

[otto-san]

I can too. So there is no (good) way to do this? :U

[MegaScientifical]

I can too. So there is no (good) way to do this? :U

If you don't need the FULL page displayed like a web browser, it's doable. (Such as just needing specific information.) If you want it like a web browser, no luck.

My sing script actually is online. If I don't have the song I request, it'll go into Jonathan Coulton's official wiki and look for the lyrics there. If it finds them, it converts the html of the lyrics into normal text and saves it to a .txt file to load.

[otto-san]

I just need to read the text on a page. Not a browser, just a thing that gets text.

[otto-san]

anyone?

[ZSNO]

anyone?

HTTPObject or TCPObject

[otto-san]

HTTPObject or TCPObject

Oh, yeah, forgot about those.

How do you use them exactly?

[ZSNO]

Oh, yeah, forgot about those.

How do you use them exactly?

new HTTPObject(Httptest){};httptest.dump();

[Kalphiter]

new HTTPObject(Httptest){};httptest.dump();

you don't need the {}

[otto-san]

you don't need the {}

once again kalphiter supplies useful information

[otto-san]

Alright, I got the webserver set up, it works, so now I'm going to mess around with HTTPObjects. :D

Having trouble getting text from it, do you use obj.get()?

if so, how exactly do you use that?

[Bauklotz]

new HTTPObject(Httptest){};httptest.dump();

replace the {}; with .
new HTTPObject(Httptest).dump();

[otto-san]

bump. can anyone help with this?

[Kalphiter]

.get("google.com:80", "/", "");

function asdf::onLine(%this, %line)
{
    echo(%line);
}