I see that Avik also fixed this, so it will work as intended in the next binary release: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/f7b8c5238c1de6a8108f91b7f58755997dfa1d66
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:30 AM, Avik Sengupta <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm presuming you're using this in windows. > > The download(url) method places the content of the url into a temporary > filename. The function should then return the name of the file in which the > content has been placed. Unfortunately, the windows verson of the function > seems to have a bug where it does not return the filename. The unix version > does. > > As a workaround, you can use the download(url, filename) version of the > method. So something like: > > filename = tempname() > download(url, filename) > > The contents of the url will then be in the file represented by filename. > > Regards > - > Avik > > > > On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 10:20:30 UTC+1, joanenric barcelo wrote: >> >> That is right, what I want is to get the value of var as you said, ie. >> >> http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xx/?request=var >> >> so, doing >> >> >> julia> dir = "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xx/?request=var";; >> >> julia> a = download(dir) >> >> julia> println(a) >> nothing >> >> julia> typeof(a) >> Nothing (constructor with 1 method) >> >> >> >> I am not getting anything. Any ideas so far? Thanks! >> >> >> El sábado, 3 de mayo de 2014 17:17:10 UTC+1, Jameson escribió: >>> >>> Or use the builtin `download` command. it isn't very fancy, but should >>> get the job done. >>> >>> I'm not sure what matlab means by PARAMS for an HTTP GET, since the >>> GET method doesn't take arguments. presumably though, it is rewriting >>> the url to `http://xx.xx.xx.xx:xx/?request=value' with quoting for >>> request and value as needed >>> >>> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:19 AM, joanenric barcelo <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Thanks Tony for your help. >>> > >>> > However, I need to use Win XP for working reasons and I cannot manage >>> > to get >>> > it work. I have raised another post with this issue >>> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/wPNc8T8lxX8 >>> > >>> > thanks again!! >>> > >>> > El miércoles, 30 de abril de 2014 17:57:50 UTC+1, Tony Kelman escribió: >>> >> >>> >> I'm not sure if the functionality is in base, but presumably one of >>> >> the >>> >> http client packages (like https://github.com/loladiro/Requests.jl) >>> >> could do >>> >> what you're looking for? >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 8:57:17 AM UTC-7, joanenric barcelo >>> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> >>> >>> I'm coming from Matlab and I would like to request some information >>> >>> through IP connection. Basically, I would like to translate the >>> >>> following >>> >>> Matlab command >>> >>> >>> >>> urlread('URL','method',PARAMS) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> concretely: >>> >>> >>> >>> urlread('http://xx.xx.xx.xx:xx','Get',{'request','value'}) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks in advance! >>> >>> >>> >>> JoanEnric
