Hi Tony HTTP GET is available under Node.js via the fetch command. The way to expose HTTP GET operations to wikitext in the browser would actually be via a message because the transfer needs to be initiated at a particular time -- remember that rendering widgets should not have side effects.
But the challenges are browser security: primarily CORS, which is a mechanism introduced by browsers specifically to prevent one website from grabbing data from another one; it is necessary to avoid certain kinds of cross site scripting attacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing Secondarily, some browsers don't permit GET requests to be made from pages loaded from file: URIs. There are workarounds (notably something called JSONP), but the cleanest solution is to use the client-server configuration and let the server do the HTTP requests. There is a pending patch that makes it possible for wikitext in the browser to invoke commands on the server (including fetch): https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/tree/external-tasks Best wishes Jeremy. -- Jeremy Ruston jer...@jermolene.com https://jermolene.com > On 20 Feb 2019, at 09:35, TonyM <anthony.mus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Folks, > > I have a 3rd party resource that provides me with some urls that returns some > values. If I place the URL in the Browser address bar I see the result. > > eg > {"thanks":"Thanks from all of us at filled.count.soap for using a what3words > API","crs":{"type":"link","properties":{"href":"http:\/\/spatialreference.org\/ref\/epsg\/4326\/ogcwkt\/","type":"ogcwkt"}},"words":"index.home.raft","bounds":{"southwest":{"lng":-0.203607,"lat":51.521238},"northeast":{"lng":-0.203564,"lat":51.521265}},"geometry":{"lng":-0.203586,"lat":51.521251},"language":"en","map":"https:\/\/w3w.co\/index.home.raft","status":{"reason":"OK","status":200}} > > Is there a way, or could be there be a way for me to provide the URI and have > the result returned in a tiddler or "text reference" that I could then > interrogate? > > I imagine it will need a trigger widget, and would likely be an action widget > but is there an existing way? > > Would it be hard or dangerous to provide such? > > If this were so, For me I can build an API connection without learning > developer tricks right now (Which I will eventually). > > It would also be nice if we could load anything at a URI into a tiddler. > >From a JSON, a Plugin Tiddler, the content of another wikis tiddler, or even > a post in another platform into a tiddler. > > Regards > Tony > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlywikidev@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/98603efa-4059-4367-88bf-2b2f5b476686%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywikidev@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/8EFDF08E-73F2-4570-A0CB-FB9770700D43%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
