Forums Scripts & Popups sockets

right firstly i understand sockets perfectly well and have used them for years so no socket tutorial urls pls.

Now my prob I was trying to query data off www.scriptsbots.co.uk/news.php

so i go through the usual socket stuff except i get a response saying that the page doesn't exist, this is the same for every page on that host. Any ideas :S

BOB

How about you give us the query you are sending? It is very hard to help you out when you don't give us any code or anything.

show us your code

:S soz

on *:sockread:securesite:{
sockread %chantemp
echo -a %chantemp
unset %chantemp
}

on *:sockopen:securesite:{
sockwrite -n $sockname GET /news.php HTTP/1.0
sockwrite -n $sockname $crlf
}

alias securesite {
sockopen securesite www.scriptsbots.co.uk 80
}

works with every site I try except this 1
:S

BOB

try:
on *:sockopen:securesite:{
sockwrite -n $sockname GET /news.php HTTP/1.0
sockwrite -n $sockname Host: www.scriptsbots.co.uk
sockwrite -n $sockname $crlf
}

bingo -- n1 , now i just gotta get me m8 to fix his site, to many blank lines :S

thx

and if still doesn't work try HTTP/1.1

Like this it will work. It won't show all the blank lines, and it works :P

alias securesite { sockclose securesite | sockopen securesite scriptsbots.co.uk 80 }
on *:sockopen:securesite:{
if (!$sockerr) {
sockwrite -n $sockname GET /news.php HTTP/1.1
sockwrite -n $sockname Host: scriptsbots.co.uk $str($crlf,2)
}
}
on *:sockread:securesite:{
sockread %securesite
if (%securesite) { echo -a %securesite }
}

i myself prefer writing the reads to a txt file so i can be sure to have the whole file, and also just makes it easier for parsing. Usually on a webpage, things like "news always begin at line 120" kind of patters are easier to handle. Just an idea--

if you would like it in a file, try this for the read:

on 1:SOCKOPEN:*: {
if ($sockerr) /echo -a Error: $sockname
else {
; your socket writes
if ($isFile(data.txt)) .remove data.txt
}
}

on 1:SOCKREAD:*: {
/sockread -f &data
/bwrite data.txt -1 -1 &data
}

on 1:SOCKCLOSE:*: {
; all your parsing here
}

the red part is what is important. The rest is just to give you the idea of where it should be placed.