Is libURL required for a "get url..." statement?

Dave Cragg dave.cragg at lacscentre.co.uk
Tue Feb 13 02:25:15 EST 2007


On 13 Feb 2007, at 02:28, Derek Bump wrote:

> I know that you cannot use commands associated with any Rev Library  
> until after the startup handler has finished, but is the following  
> command part of the libURL library?
>
>   get url "http://www.mysite.com/"
>
> The reason I ask is because it seems to me that it would not be,  
> but is instead built into the engine.

A reasonable assumption, but I'm afraid "get url" does need libUrl  
when used with ftp and http URLs. The same is true for other calls  
using http and ftp urls (load,  post, etc.) and also the cachedUrls()  
function.

Cheers
Dave



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