There's now a fix for gethttp, available through J's package manager. FYI,
-- Raul On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 3:00 PM Ed Gottsman <edward.j.gotts...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Raul, > > Escaping the &s fixes the call to code.jsoftware.com > <http://code.jsoftware.com/>. There’s another call, to www.jsoftware.com > <http://www.jsoftware.com/>, that looks like this: > > https://www.jsoftware.com/cgi-bin/forumsearch.cgi?all=' , (urlencode y) , > '&exa=&one=&exc=&add=&sub=&fid=&tim=0&rng=0&dbgn=1&mbgn=1&ybgn=1998&dend=31&mend=12¥d=2030 > > …escaping whose &s seems to confuse the cgi script (which is very strange—the > \s shouldn’t get through to it). However, I found that *not* escaping > them…works. So I don’t. (I guess I never tried that one with gethttp.) > > I don’t fully understand what’s going on, but I’m going to declare victory > until I get a bug report. > > Thank you. > > Ed > > > > On Apr 22, 2023, at 6:13 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I don't think that's it. > > > > I think the issue here is that gethttp runs curl, and on OSX, the & > > character is a command separator (similar to ; or newline, except that > > it also specifies that the command to its left is run in the > > background). > > > > So, fetching > > https://code.jsoftware.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=70&offset=0&profile=default&search=dyadic%20transpose%E2%80%99 > > using gethttp returns the result of executing at the osx command line > > > > search=dyadic%20transpose%E2%80%99 > > > > This produces an empty result (and sets the environmental variable > > 'search' to the value 'dyadic%20transpose%E2%80%99', but that is > > immediately discarded when the subshell exits). > > > > In other words, I think gethttp needs to quote the url for use in a > > shell command before calling curl. > > > > In other words, any " or $ or \ characters in the url need to be > > prefixed with a \ (probably using rplc) and then the resulting string > > needs a leading " and a trailing " character. > > > > Linux should get the same treatment. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Raul > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 11:55 AM Norman Drinkwater > > <nrdrinkwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> On macos, gethttp uses curl. To retrieve multiple urls, I believe you need > >> to specify a target file to receive each result. > >> https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/downloads/multiple > >> > >> > >> On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 9:27 AM Ed Gottsman <edward.j.gotts...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Hello. I’ve been working with gethttp (on the Mac) and have noticed > >>> something odd. I’ve boiled it down to > >>> > >>> ('-o ' , jpath '~temp/gethttp.html') gethttp ' > >>> https://code.jsoftware.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=70&offset=0&profile=default&search=dyadic%20transpose > >>> ' > >>> > >>> …works. It creates a file in ~temp containing the html. Though, > >>> strangely, it seems to do it asynchronously—the call returns before the > >>> file is created and you have to poll for it thereafter. > >>> > >>> However, > >>> > >>> $ gethttp ' > >>> https://code.jsoftware.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=70&offset=0&profile=default&search=dyadic%20transpose’ > >>> < > >>> https://code.jsoftware.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=70&offset=0&profile=default&search=dyadic%20transpose%E2%80%99 > >>>> > >>> 0 > >>> > >>> …immediately returns no bytes. (I imagine they’re eventually going to a > >>> default file somewhere but have not tried to track it down.) > >>> > >>> I’ve experimented and it seems as if specifying more than one header > >>> parameter (or more than two if you specify one with -H and one with &) > >>> will > >>> cause this behavior. > >>> > >>> Am I misguided (or hallucinating)? If not, is there a way to help gethttp > >>> take multiple headers and still return the html directly and > >>> synchronously? (I’d prefer to avoid polling for files.) > >>> > >>> Thanks very much. > >>> > >>> Ed > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >>> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
