what to do after a Get URL?

[Dan Friedman]

Jon,

When you use the statement:

 get url "ftp://a.b.c/d.txt"

The url is placed into the local variable "it".  Therefore you can access
the contents by simply getting "it" (put it into tUrlData).  Or, just put
the url into your own variable.  For example:

 put url "ftp://a.b.c/d.txt" into urlData.

To put the data into your local computer as a file, try this:

 on getURLText
   put url "ftp://a.b.c/d.txt" into tUrlData
   ask file "Save As:"
   put it into fPath
   if fPath = "" then
      exit getURLText
   end if
   put tUrlData into url ("file:" & fPath)
 end getURLText

Hope that helps...

-Dan


> I understand how to write the statement
> 
> get url "ftp://a.b.c/d.txt"
> 
> or some such.  OK, so now the file is somehow "in" the computer, with
> the Get.
> 
> What I don't "get" (so to speak) is how to put that data into my local
> computer as a file.  I assume it is something like
> 
> put url "file://something"
> 
> but I'm not sure about the "something".  "file://c:/dir/filename.txt"?
> "file://c/dir/filename.txt"?  And I'm not sure how to specify the data
> to "put" in the Put statement: is it implicit (one of those magic words
> like "it" or "this" or something)?
> 
> I'm sure this is simple/obvious, but only if you know it...
> 
> :)
> 
> Jon