Re: Convert URL to text?
Re: Convert URL to text?
- Subject: Re: Convert URL to text?
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 19:49:34 +0100
At 9:24 AM -0500 12/3/05, Scott Dunn wrote:
I'm trying to write a small utility that performs some actions based
upon the URL of the current web page. I assumed that the following
would give me a variable of the correct type for searching the
keychain, however it appears I'm wrong. If I hard-code 'keyName' to
the address of the page then the retrieval works fine.
tell application "Safari"
set theURL to the URL of document 1
end tell
set keyName to theURL as text
-- at this point 'keyName' seems to be correct, but doesn't work.
-- if I 'set keyName to "www.apple.com"' then it works
Actually, you don't say *what* works. You could want to check that
the following works:
tell application "Safari"
set theURL to the URL of document 1
end tell
open location theURL
I'm assuming that the coercion of URL to text is not working as I
expect and 'keyName' actually contains some extraneous non-visible
characters.
What's the correct way to get a URL as plain text?
I did try searching the archives and tried a few things that I saw
there but I'm still stuck. Suffice to say this is very frustrating.
This is my first AppleScript and I would never have thought I'd be
stumped by something that seems so simple!
You don't say what you want to do with keyName, and why in the first
place you attempt a coercion to text? It's already text. Or maybe the
URL makes a special problem and if suitable you would tell us what it
is.
Emmanuel
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