Great advice.  Thanks, Jack!

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Jack Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I'd like to automate capturing web-page source text using J. I can, of
>> course, continue to copy and paste back and forth between my J
>> sessions and a browser, but I'd like to know what would be involved in
>> making a closer connection. What sort of options are there? If there
>> is information on this already on the J wiki, where should I look? I
>> guess what I'm looking for is how to use J as a (simple) web browser.
>
> you could write a browser plugin (eg. firefox extension) that feeds to
> J the HTML from every site you visit.
>
> you could use wget or curl or lynx to dump HTML to a file
>
> you could use HTTP from J using system/classes/socket/jtelnet.ijs
> all you have to do is send eg. "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" to a server
> and you'll get HTML back (after some headers)
>
>
> ta, jack
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