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Date sent: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:02:15 -0200
Subject: [REBOL] Passing URLs to Rebol?
>
> Hello, Being a new user to REBOL I am having trouble acting on the
> following URL. What do I have to do to get this to work? Any help on this
> would be appreciated. The error message from REBOL is below.
>
> URL: http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=@^AV.TO&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv
>
> The following is the error message I get back.
>
> Script: "Active Stocks" ("Tuesday, April 25, 2000")
> ** User Error: URL error: http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=@^AV.TO&f
> =sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv.
> ** Where: Toronto: read http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=@^AV.TO&f=s
> l1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv write/binary %toronto.csv
Hi Doug,
The ^ in the URL is causing your main problem. ^ is REBOLs escape
character, and ^A is being converted to CTRL-A (ASCII 1).
If you correctly URL-encode the ^ character (%5E), you'll end up with
something like:
a: read http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=@%5EAV.TO&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv
Unfortunately, THIS WON'T WORK! Here's the second problem.
REBOL un-escapes the %5E to ^, then doesn't re-escape it when sending
it out to the web server. (Ralph and I discussed this on the list
briefly last week. Nobody has confirmed whether this has been
reported or not, so I am writing a bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
as soon as this message is sent.)
Your working solution is to set your URL up as a string, escaping the
^ as %5E, then run it through to-url as you're reading it, like this:
>> a: "http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=@%5EAV.TO&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv"
== {http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=@%5EAV.TO&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv}
>>b: read to-url a
== {"ULP.TO",12.90,"4/25/2000","1:24PM",+0.05,12.85,12.95,12.85,2599688
"NT.TO",150.50,"4/25/2000","1:25PM",+7.00,148.50,151.25,147...
Cheers,
Kev
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