Here is a nice simple but robust way to retrieve the contents of a URL from J: (may need some adjustment to work on Macs).
require 'task' WGET=: (jpath '~tools/ftp/')&,^:(-.IFUNIX) 'wget' WGETOPTS=: ' -q -O - ' getHTTP=: spawn WGET , WGETOPTS , ] If you set up your .wgetrc file options correctly then it will handle proxies etc too. data=: getHTTP 'http://gmane.org/output-rate.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.j.programming' 85{.dat date posting-rate spam-rate 20060212 7 0 20060213 18 0 20060214 8 0 20060215 3 0 jhome=: getHTTP 'http://www.jsoftware.com' 280{. jhome <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> <title>J Home</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="./jweb.css" type="text/css"> </head> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
