Can Rev as CGI pull an URL's HTML into a variable?

[RGould8 at aol.com]

Hmmm, I'm afraid I'm having the same problem, using the script you provided.  
 I do get 90% of the html, but the loading process just hangs.

Server:   Mac OS X Tiger 10.4
Client:   Safari or Firefox

Could it be something with Mac OS X?


In a message dated 8/16/06 3:34:31 AM, dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk writes:


> 
> On 16 Aug 2006, at 04:49, rgould8 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > When I run the below script as a CGI, I get, maybe 90% of the html 
> > back, but it hangs at the end for some reason.  Is there a 
> > character-limit to how much text libURL can retrieve at once?
> 
> There's no limit.
> 
> As a first step, I'd suggest you retrieve the url before you starting 
> sending back any response from your CGI. Something like this (untested):
> 
> #!revolution
> 
> on startup
> 
>   start using stack "liburl_1.1.5_minus.rev"
> 
>   put $QUERY_STRING into searchstring
>   put "http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=" & searchstring into searchURL
>   put URL searchURL into databack
>   if the result <> empty then ##error occurred
>    put "error" && the result into databack
>   end if
> 
>   put "parameter   = " & urlDecode($QUERY_STRING) into tRet
>   put cr & "databack = " & databack after tRet
> 
>   put "Content-Type: text/plain" & cr
>   put "Content-Length:" & length(tRet) & cr & cr
> 
>   put tRet
> 
>   wait 20 milliseconds ##helps with some servers
>   end startup
> 
> If this still has problems, let us know.
> 
> Cheers
> Dave
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