Re: [Help-smalltalk] Simple HTTP client

[Paolo Bonzini]

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... :-)

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 ]

I guess it'd be better to have something like

   (URL fromString: 'http://www.inf.unisi.ch/') contents

Paolo