Re: URL Access Scripting- post data
Re: URL Access Scripting- post data
- Subject: Re: URL Access Scripting- post data
- From: "Daniel A. Shockley" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:10:57 -0400
Hmm. I haven't read the list for a while, but noticed this sad
thread. Actually, URL Access Scripting has not been able to 'post
data' in any version of Mac OS X 10.1, and perhaps even earlier
versions as well. It seems that my copy of Jaguar manages to launch
the Classic version of UAS, and it even seems to work. I just curl,
instead, though, since it is very reliable and fast. It's a very
powerful command-line download utility, built into Mac OS X 10.1 and
higher. To read more about curl's features, type man curl in
Terminal.app.
Here's a quick sample that uses a sample post-processing CGI and
saves the results to a file named somefile.html on your desktop. It's
much faster, but you don't get the 'unpacking' or 'with progress'
features of UAS:
set downloadURL to "
http://www.idocs.com/cgi-bin/mycgi.pl";
set theFormInfo to "realname=George the Wonder
Boy&email=email@hidden&" & ,
"nosmoke=on&myself=Here's my little bio about myself."
set destExpected to (path to desktop as string) & "somefile.html"
try
set curlCode to "curl \"" & downloadURL & "\""
set unixDestExpected to POSIX path of (destExpected as string)
set curlCode to curlCode & " --output \"" & unixDestExpected & "\""
if (length of theFormInfo) > 0 then
set hasFormInfo to true
else
set hasFormInfo to false
end if
if hasFormInfo then
set curlCode to curlCode & " -d \"" & theFormInfo & "\""
end if
set curlResponse to do shell script curlCode
on error errMsg number errNum
error "Could not download " & downloadURL & " (using 'curl') due to
the following error: " & errMsg
end try
Message: 3
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:14:06 +0200
Subject: URL Access Scripting- post data
From: email@hidden (Gerd)
To: email@hidden
Hallo Marc, Hallo Rob,
thanks for your help.
1. question:
I tried as you suggested (OS X 10.1.5):
set myFolderRef to ((path to startup disk) as string) & ":Festplatte"
and got the error:
Can't make alias . Can't make some object into a <<handler run>> .
2. question
If i try to run the script this way i still get following error:
Application is not running.
The whole line 'download the action ... ' is highlighted .
Before i choose the UAS when i was asked 'where is UAS ?' .
(I put away the old OS 9 UAS) When i twas there, the sript always loaded
only the OS 9 UAS .
set the action_URL to "http://hotornot.whow.de/user.php?action=index.php";
set the form_data to
"previmg_wertung=10&previd=244235&state=wertung&redir=nein"
set the query_results_file to "Festplatte:" & "FMData"
with timeout of 100 seconds -- try connecting for 1 minute
tell application "URL Access Scripting"
download the action_URL to file the query_results_file form
data form_data replacing yes with progress
quit
end tell
tell application "Finder"
set the file type of the file query_results_file to "TEXT"
set the creator type of the file query_results_file to "MSIE"
open the file query_results_file
end tell
end timeout
Any ideas
Gerd
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