alias sockettest {
sockopen toplist www.billboard.com 80
}
on *:SOCKOPEN:toplist: {
sockwrite -nt $sockname [color:red]GET /bbcom/releases/releases_display.jsp?rollDate=0[/color]
sockwrite -nt $sockname HOST: billboard.com
sockwrite -nt $sockname Accept-Language: en-us
sockwrite -nt $sockname User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT)
}
on *:SOCKREAD:toplist: {
if ($sockerr) {
echo -s SockError $sockname $sockerr
return
}
else {
var %temptext
sockread %temptext
echo -a %temptext
}
}
Notes: Once you "sockopen" to a site, you no longer need the "www" bit in the GET. Its also a REALLY big site, so it'll take about 10 seconds to echo.