html getflie geturl help

[ken gray]

I'm having a devil of a time trying to download a file from site that requires a login. I'm not if the error is my code or if it's something on the server side.

can you help me get this working using the forum's urls?

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ClearOutput
str a
Http c.Connect("http://www.quickmacros.com/forum" "my id" "my password")
Http b.GetUrl("http://www.quickmacros.com/forum/profile.php?mode=editprofile" &a)
out a

I'm trying to get text files from our server here, if that makes any difference to the "GetUrl" "GetFile" coding.

Thanks.

[Gintaras]

Http works like this:

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str a
Http c.Connect("www.quickmacros.com" "username" "password")
c.FileGet("forum/profile.php?mode=editprofile" a)

At first, Connect to server, then, using the same variable, call FileGet one or more times. In this case (qm forum), username and password cannot be used here (you must be interactively logged in).

[John]

im wanting to check to see if a file exists on a web site lets say "http://www.quickmacros.com/test.txt"

also im wanting to download that same file or other files and place them in my c drive

if this can be done can someone please help me

thank you

[Gintaras]

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str s
internet.IntGetFile("http://www.quickmacros.com/test.txt" s)
;ShowText "" s
if(find(s "<TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE>")>=0)
,out "not found"
else
,s.setfile("$desktop$/test.txt")

[John]

ok that works great to set the file on my hard drive ..... the if find didnt work, also im wanting to check to see if the file is there before i download it the code that you gave me downloads the file then checks to see if it failed .

thank you

[Gintaras]

I think you'll have to download at least part of file, say 1KB. Then search for 404 not found. Is it OK?

To check if the file is there without downloading, you must have FTP access (password, etc), and use Ftp functions.

[ken gray]

are these valid syntaxes? ie can you use variables with all these?

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str dlurl newfln
IntGetFile(dlurl &s)
Dir d.dir(newfln)
run newfln

[Gintaras]

can you use variables

Variables can be used with all user-defined functions.