Forums Scripts & Popups sockets....

ok i know some very basic stuff about sockets but idk how to do this
what i am trying to do is show the front page headlines off of any one know of how to come by doing this? (Here)

This tutorial explains how to make HTTP requests. You need to connect www.m[/b]snbc.com on port 80 and retrieve "/news/news_front.asp?0dm=C10RN&ta=y".

After you send the HTTP request, a sockread event will trigger with the page data, allowing you to parse it and pull the relevant headlines. Parsing isn't always easy. If you have troubles, paste here what you've got so far and we'll try to help.

k thx for the pointers

ok i have figured out how to connect to the site and echo it out but the tut says nothing about what u said online =/

Yea the tutorial is very basic and doesn't go into details of using binary variables or parsing text.

Now you need to learn the page structure and see where you start pulling the headlines, and where you finish and close the connection. When you view the page in your browser, select "View source" to see the HTML stuff.

Assuming you want only the "Top Stories" section I created a small script that retrieves them, get it here (yeah, I know I suck at commenting... ). Feel free to ask any question about it...

Btw I changed HTTP/1.1 to 1.0. It's like asking the server to be more friendly and not to send back encoded data or other things we can't handle.

thanks for your help
erm one more thing how would i write this to a dialog edit box? i would set it to a var then tok it or something?

Well, at some stage I presume you're displaying it with /echo or such, so change that /echo to "/did <-a | -ra> dialogname ID .... "