Or you could consider running curl or wget as a subprocess.
On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 2:59 PM Raymond Wiker <rwi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 7 May 2023, at 22:19, paul tarvydas <paultarvy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I want to GET a URL and put the result into a string with as little fuss > as possible, but nothing seems to work. > > I am trying to follow: > https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/web-scraping.html > > using SBCL and LispWorks. > > I'm on a MacBook (Ventura) and am getting SSL errors (plus unicode errors > in Lispworks). > > Reminders as to how to fix such problems would be appreciated... > > thanks > pt > > > > If all you need is to fetch whatever is at a url, the following should > suffice: > > (dexador:get "https://planet.lisp.org";) > > or > > (drakma:http-request "https://planet.lisp.org";) > > What errors, if any, do you get from these? >
