Hi,

I've decided to try to learn how to use sockets and I have a few ideas for scripts once I learn. I've looked in the help for mIRC and searched these boards to find basic examples of how to use sockets, but I can't get this to work. Basically, for now, I'm just trying to open a socket to www.yahoo.com and see if I can get it to read data to a variable and then write it to a text file so I can see what the info looks like that you get from sockets. I have an alias and two remotes sections to try to do this. Excuse all the "echoes" in the script. I was just testing to see if things were working.
Code:
alias sockettest {
  sockopen yahoo www.yahoo.com 80
  sockread %temp
  echo -a %temp
}
on 1:sockopen:yahoo:{
  echo -a socket opened
  sockread %temp
}
on 1:sockread:yahoo:{
  echo -a hello
  if ($sockerr > 0) return
  :nextread
  sockread %temp
  if ($sockbr == 0) return
  if (%temp == $null) %temp = -
  echo -a %temp
  write yahoo.txt %temp
  goto nextread
  else sockclose yahoo
}

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