On mardi 11 novembre 2008, birchy wrote: > I have a need to develop a web app that can do the following: > 1) interact with a web server via http > 2) login to the site and maintain a session via cookies > 3) parse the html > > There is a large selection of libraries that can do this in Java, but i'm > much more familiar with VB6/Gambas. As far as i understand, the solutions > are: > 1) gb.net.curl > 2) gb.net.curl > 3) gb.xml > > I have read that curl can handle cookies, but have no idea how to do it in > Gambas - are there any code samples?
No, but by reading the source code, I can say that: HttpClient.CookieFile allows you to define a file where cookies will be read. And HttpClient.UpdateCookies should tell if the previous file will be updated during the HTTP request. > gb.xml is based on libxml2 and i have > read that libxml2 can also handle html...but again, i cannot find any > information on how to do this in Gambas via gb.xml as the documentation is > very incomplete. Some variant of HTML can be parsed with an XML parser. But most the time it does not work, as HTML is not strict enough. But I just read on the libxml2 website that this library knows how to parse HTML too. So if you find a volunteer to implement it in the gb.xml component? > Can anyone confirm that Gambas is capable of producing my > web app, or would i be better off using Java? No idea. It depends on what you need exactly. Regards, -- Benoit Minisini ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
