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« on: October 10, 2007, 03:57:43 pm »
It sure would be nice to retrieve and post web pages from within NPL...
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« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2007, 05:24:14 pm »
Tell me more! 

How would this capability be used? 

Why would this be good?

Does anyone else think this is a good idea?
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« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2007, 06:07:50 pm »
I've been using a program name "URL2FILE".
you pass it an URL and it dumps the results to a text file... or html file, if you will.  I open the text file and parse the results. The NPL $shell thingy is a bit obnoxious to look at... and depending on the length of the URL, you have to create a .BAT file to do the job instead... on the screen it's just plain ugly.

Something closer to an javascript AJAX solution would be nice... even passing the results back in a text file would be okay...  I don't think there's any reason to limit the functionality to "XML only" type responses... parsing a file is okay for me.
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« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2007, 11:04:36 am »
Are you talking about retreiving a web page html content into a variable or array? 

Maybe,  dynamically building a web page within NPL and posting it?

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« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2007, 11:24:52 am »
Primarily, I'm after web page contents.  Sometimes just screen skimming, sometimes looking for the effects of a post.  Sometime, I use this as a work-around for  posting and/or retrieving information from an MySQL database.

Having NPL act as a scripting language, while interesting, probably isn't practical.
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« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2007, 10:54:43 am »
While I am by no means a Javascript guru, I have used javascript on website designs, and I have always felt NPL is a much stronger language, and could be used as a scripting language like java......    does anybody agree?
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« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2007, 12:23:50 pm »
imho: while javascript can be irritating. it's universally accepted... mostly.  the constructs of NPL, while more clear to us, would be equally irritating when applied to the DOM.

I think it would be nice to have something "quickly" implemented that would allow NPL to access the "world"... i don't think it's necessary to try and save it (the world)...
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