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

[Daniel Davenport]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org 
> [mailto:interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org] On Behalf 
> Of Jon Jensen
> Sent: 2006 July 26 -- Wednesday 1:07 PM
> To: interchange-users at icdevgroup.org
> Subject: Re: [ic] How to include HTTP GET response in an IC page
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, DB wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> What's in your error.log?
> 
> It may be that the get_url tag code does something un-Safe 
> and thus can't 
> be run from a calc block. You may need to write a usertag instead.
> 
> Jon

or.....move the get_url out of the calc block.  :)

[tmp page][get-url url="http://example.com/mypage.xml"][/tmp]
[calcn] ($Scratch->{page} =~ m!<string>(.+?)</string>!) and $1; [/calcn]

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Daniel Davenport
New Age Digital
http://www.newagedigital.com