DDE and iexplore. - mIRC Discussion Forums

Would it be possible to read the contents of an iexplore web page using DDE? Like, suppose I wanted to make a script to pull a definition off of www.dictionary.com... something like:

alias /def {
/dde iexplore WWW_OpenURL http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q= $+ $replace($1-,$chr(32),% $+ 20)
}

That would OPEN the page, right? How could I read its contents, though?

dde? no..i think u want sockets... /help sockets

Yeah, well, I don't know much of anything about sockets.

I read the help section (not the first time I've read it, either) but I don't really know how to use this to do what I want. I would guess the first step is to use /sockopen to connect to... my own computer, on any port. Then what? I guess I use /sockwrite to send info to that connection, but what info do I send? Should I be sending something like /sockwrite (name) run iexplore...?

I think it's pretty clear I don't know what I'm doing, especially when it comes to sockets. :-D

No no no....
You connect to the server where you want the info to be retrieved...

try using the search function of these boards, and you'll find many examples how to do that...

Code:

 
alias dict {
  %string = $replace($1-,$chr(32),+)
  sockopen DICT dictionary.com 80
}
on *:SOCKOPEN:DICT:{
  sockwrite -n $sockname GET /search?q= $+ %string
  sockwrite -n $sockname Host: dictionary.com.org $+ $crlf $+ $crlf
}
on *:SOCKREAD:DICT:{
  if ($sockerr) {
    echo -a Error!
  }
  else {
    var %socktext
    sockread %socktext
    if (&lt;TABLE&gt;* $+ $replace(%string,+,$chr(32)) $+ * iswm %socktext) {
      echo -a $left($htmlfree(%socktext),$len(%string))
    }
    if (&lt;OL&gt;&lt;LI&gt; isin %socktext) {
      commands to get definition out of HTML
    }
  }
}
alias htmlfree {
  var %x, %i = $regsub($1-,/(^[^&lt;]*&gt;|&lt;[^&gt;]*&gt;|&lt;[^&gt;]*$)/g,$null,%x), %x = $remove(%x,&amp;nbsp;)
  return %x
}

something along thoes lines
im my AIM... demitrixrd
and ill help you out if u dont get it