get URL returning empty string

[Dave Beck]

Thanks Chipp!!

But unfortunately putting the command in a repeat structure like that
doesn't seem to be helping. For some reason "get URL" returning empty is
quite consistent behavior on at least one customer's machine.

Might it help to use the "load" command instead? Are they implemented more
or less the same way internally? What about communicating through sockets?
Is that more reliable? (I am currently using a .php script to execute some
commands on the server and return a value.)

Thanks so much your help. It is really nice to have such a knowledgeable
person to turn to when the going gets tough.

Dave


>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?