Re: "Read" a URL?

2004-03-03 Thread Dave Cragg
At 2:16 pm -0600 2/3/04, Chipp Walters wrote: Dave Cragg's next version of libURL will :-) (assuming you have the correct script on the server)... But, Rev Dictionary says of "put it into URL "http://www.example.com/file";': "Most web servers do not allow you to upload via HTTP." That version is n

Re: "Read" a URL?

2004-03-02 Thread Chipp Walters
Dave Cragg's next version of libURL will :-) (assuming you have the correct script on the server)... But, Rev Dictionary says of "put it into URL "http://www.example.com/file";': "Most web servers do not allow you to upload via HTTP." ___ use-revoluti

Re: "Read" a URL?

2004-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> It's not possible to use the read command on a URL, as far as I know. > (If you're talking to a server via HTTP, I believe the protocol > requires you to download the entire file to get access to any of it.) actually i'm not sure how the read command works, nor how the libUrl stuff works, but

Re: "Read" a URL?

2004-02-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, February 29, 2004, at 08:34 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: I'm wondering if it's possible to read the last line of a text file stored on the Web, instead of downloading the whole 2MB file into a variable. So far: open file net_address_of_file for read ...returns "can't open that file". A

Re: "Read" a URL?

2004-02-29 Thread Brian Yennie
Actually I'm using the FTP protocol (I'm passing login info on the URL string) -- does the same limitation apply? I'm guessing it's not in libURL, but the following could be scripted in: http://cr.yp.to/ftp/retr.html check out "RETR" and then "REST" - downloading from a given offset. HTTP protoc

Re: "Read" a URL?

2004-02-29 Thread Scott Rossi
On 2/29/04 10:08 PM, "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is it possible to *read* a Web based file, as opposed to *put*-ting the url >> into a container? >> >> I'm wondering if it's possible to read the last line of a text file stored >> on the Web, instead of downloading the whol

Re: "Read" a URL?

2004-02-29 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 7:34 PM -0800 2/29/2004, Scott Rossi wrote: Is it possible to *read* a Web based file, as opposed to *put*-ting the url into a container? I'm wondering if it's possible to read the last line of a text file stored on the Web, instead of downloading the whole 2MB file into a variable. So It's not

"Read" a URL?

2004-02-29 Thread Scott Rossi
Is it possible to *read* a Web based file, as opposed to *put*-ting the url into a container? I'm wondering if it's possible to read the last line of a text file stored on the Web, instead of downloading the whole 2MB file into a variable. So far: open file net_address_of_file for read ...ret