Difference between revisions of "GETURL()"

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headers[] = "Authentication: Basic " + base64_encode("username:password")
 
headers[] = "Authentication: Basic " + base64_encode("username:password")
 
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Revision as of 08:13, 9 January 2013

Purpose

Function to talk with HTTP web servers and consume data provided by web services

Syntax

GETURL(<expC1> [, <expN> [, <expO> | <dynamic-array> [, expC2>]]])

See Also

AT(), ATNEXT(), FCLOSE(), FCREATE(), FERROR(), FGETS(), FILETOSTR(), FOPEN(), FPUTS(), FREAD(), FREADSTR(), FWRITE(), ISSERVER(), JSON_DECODE_FILE(), POSTURL(), SUBSTR(), STUFF(), STR(), STREXTRACT(), STRTOFILE(), STRTRAN(), STRZERO(), TRIM(), XML_DECODE_FILE()

Description

The GETURL() function reads the specified URL, <expC1>, and returns its contents as text. The optional <expN> parameter allows a timeout in seconds to be set.

Parameter Description Example
<expC1> Fully qualified URI http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=twitterapi&rpp=1
<expN> The timeout in seconds for the request (default 30). Set this to 0 for no timeout. 30
<expO> | <dynamic-array> An object or dynamic array containing the HTTP header elements headers = array()
headers[] = "Host: search.twitter.com"

headers[] = "Authentication: Basic " + base64_encode("username:password")

<expC2> Name of file in which to store data "myfilename.json"

Example

<!-- twitter.rsp -->
<html>
<body>
<%
? geturl("http://twitter.com/recitalsoftware",60)
%>
</body>
</html>