get URL returning empty string

[Chipp Walters]

Hi Dave,

There may be a couple of reasons for this, either latency in your 
network or a funny firewall and/or proxy setup.

Here's what you can do:

repeat 5 times
    put URL "http:/myURL.com" into tData
    if tData is empty then next repeat
end repeat

if tData is empty then
   answer "Can't get URL data!"
else
   put tData into fld "xyz"
end if

I've found this sort of repeat structure to help in these situations.

Dave Beck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having a problem with the "get URL" command returning an empty string.
> The "result" variable is also empty. I know that the web page that I am
> trying to load is NOT empty. It seems to work properly on some machines but
> return the empty string on others. Has anybody else experienced this issue?
> Is there a work around?


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