[ic] How to include HTTP GET response in an IC page

[DB]

> On 07/24/2006 04:55 PM, DB wrote:
>> On my IC-5.4 website I need to create a form with a single input field,
>> the contents of which gets added to a HTTP GET request to a remote site.
>> The reply to the request is if the format:
>> 
>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>> Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
>> Content-Length: length
>> 
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>> <ArrayOfString xmlns="http://www.remote-site.com">
>>   <string>string</string>
>>   <string>string</string>
>> </ArrayOfString>
>> 
>> 
>> I want to extract the contents of the first instance of
>> <string>string</string>, and display that on the form's results page.
>> Can anyone help by example or point me to the proper docs?
> 
> Use the [get-url] tag 
> <http://www.interchange.rtfm.info/docs/frames/ictags_144.html> to fetch 
> the remote page, then use perl regular expressions to filter out the 
> content you want.  Something like this should do it:
> 
> [calcn]
> 	my $page = $Tag->get_url('http://www.example.com/mypage.xml');
> 	$page =~ m!<string>(.+?)</string>!;
> 	$1;
> [/calcn]
> 
> Peter

The tag works if I use it like this:
[get-url "http://example.com/mypage.xml"]

and if I view the source of the resulting page I see:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ArrayOfString xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://www.example.com">
  <string>the_result</string>
  <string xsi:nil="true" />
</ArrayOfString>

as expected. However if I try

[calcn]
	my $page = $Tag->get_url('http://www.example.com/mypage.xml');
	$page =~ m!<string>(.+?)</string>!;
	$1;
[/calcn]

then all I see is 0

I tried escaping the / using

[calcn]
	my $page = $Tag->get_url('http://www.example.com/mypage.xml');
	$page =~ m!<string>(.+?)<\/string>!;
	$1;
[/calcn]

But I still get just 0

Can anyone help me figure out what's wrong ?

DB