On Mar 24, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Jerry Fritschle wrote:
response = get(url, 7)
This works. Thank you.
Odd, though, that the error I got was "requires fewer parameters
than were passed" rather than "you must use the value returned by
this function."
Well technically both errors are correct; but how is the compiler
going to know which function you wanted to use? All the compiler
knows is that the function you called doesn't exist.
Depending on how you use it, httpsocket.get performs either as a
function (i.e, returns a value) or a normal method.
There are actually four variations to the Get() method:
// uses the events:
Get(url As String)
Get(url As String, File As FolderItem)
// returns a string
Get(url As String, timeout As Integer) As String
// returns a boolean
Get(url As String, File As FolderItem, Timeout As Integer) As
Boolean
Perhaps the documentation needs to be tweaked. If I decide I
really think so, I'll go through REAL's system to request it.
This is true. The current implementation of the REALbasic help
system does not do a good job with documenting overloaded methods.
In this case, the REALbasic 2006r1 documentation does not even
mention *in* the Get() entry that the function can return a string or
a boolean depending on the parameters. It does use the return value
in the example on the main HTTPSocket entry.
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