"get URL" as blocking command

[Alex Tweedly]

Yes,

you can do "load URL ..." and it will load in the background.

Then either do

1.  "get url ..." as before - and it will used the now-cached version

2. use 'load url ... with message "myhandler" and your handler will be 
called to let you know when it is ready

3. use urlstatus to check if/when it is ready.


(Simplest, unless there is more going on than you described would be 
(1). The 'get url ...' will pause only until the initial load is completed.)

Alex.

On 08/09/2025 18:41, jbv via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have a LC script on a server that computes different
> things, and also sends a request to an API to get some data.
> More specifically, the script begins with some code that
> outputs some result, then needs to send the API request
> to get some data to run some more code.
> The first part of the script is self-contained (it doesn't
> need any extra data to run), while the second part of the
> script can't run without the data from the API.
> At the end, the results from both parts of the script are
> combined into a json.
>
> I am using "get URL" for the request and need to keep the
> whole thing as fast as possible, despite the fact that the
> API can take 1 to 3 seconds to return data.
> I decided to have the first part of the script running
> simultaneously with the API request, but since "get URL" is a
> blocking command, I use a workaround as follows :
>
> LC script :
>    get URL "https://my-PHP-script"
> /*
>    first part of the code
> */
>    -- read API data from DB
>    -- perform second part of the code
>
> my-PHP-script :
> <?php
>   echo "ok";
>   // send request to API
>   // write API data into DB
>
> I have tested it and it works, but I was wondering if
> there is some more elegant way to achieve the same thing...
>
> Thank you in advance.
> jbv
>
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