Downloading mystery

[Ken Ray]

On 11/16/05 7:42 PM, "Bruce A. Pokras" <macstacks at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I am trying to script the downloading of European patents from the
> European Patent Office's server. They provide a sample URL to use for
> that purpose, but instead of the patent, I instantly get a zero size
> file. I've tried it with and without URLencode. However, scriptiing
> with revGoURL works fine with the same URL to open the patent in my
> browser. Any ideas? The script I am using goes like this:
> 
> on mouseup
> put 
> "https://publications.european-patent-office.org/PublicationServer/getpdf.jsp?
> cc=EP&pn=1502503&ki=A1"
> into theURL

You're using an 'https' secure socket... did you do this first:

  libURLSetSSLVerification false

??

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com