[Help-smalltalk] Re: Simple HTTP client

[Paolo Bonzini]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Mark Carter wrote:
> > I would like to mess around with some client-side HTTP stuff. I had a 
> > Google around, and it appears that I need the packages Netclients. 
> > However, I couldn't figure out how to make it work.
> >
> > Is there a simple example where I can download, for example the page 
> > www.google.com, as a string?
>
> Uhm, in the development trees it broke recently... :-)

This is fixed in a67e49c85904d58247daa8ebcc60d90ab55b7c32.

> I don't have 3.0.3 checked out but this should work:
>
>    [ (f := FileStream open: 'http://www.inf.unisi.ch/' mode: 'r')
>         contents ] ensure: [ f close ]

Yes, this works in 3.0.3.  I also checked in a couple of fixes to handle 
404 errors better.  I'll send mail about one of these fixes soon...

Paolo