[REBOL] Re: Problem reading url
From: Gary:Jones:usap:gov at: 19-Apr-2004 11:36
Raimund,
REBOL generally follows the accepted standard for url characters; however, frequently
websites use characters that are not technically part of the standard. I have not checked
for "^".
At any rate the net-utils parsing rules *sometimes* can be patched to allow the url to
be parsed. I have tried the patch for this character and it appears to parse, but I
do not know if it retrieves the information for which you seek. Watch for line wrap.
net-utils/url-parser/path-char: union net-utils/url-parser/path-char make bitset! "^^"
read http://de.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes/csv?s=^GDAXI&f=sl1t1d1c1pohgv
yields:
connecting to: de.finance.yahoo.com
== {^^GDAXI;4033,98;17:45;4/16/2004;+29,37;4004,61;4004,61;4043,53;3986,62;0
}
This patch may make other tcp accesses unstable, so use at your own risk, or alternatively:
old-bitset: copy net-utils/url-parser/path-char
net-utils/url-parser/path-char: union net-utils/url-parser/path-char make bitset! "^^"
read http://de.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes/csv?s=^GDAXI&f=sl1t1d1c1pohgv
net-utils/url-parser/path-char: copy old-bitset
which then reverts the bitset back to the original.
Hope that this helps as an alternative to Anton's more properly formatted method.
--Scott Jones
