Downloading mystery

[xavier.bury at clearstream.com]

Bruce,

I got this message from their front page...

"The server at publications.european-patent-office.org is taking too long 
to respond."

i get timeouts... their web server could be down...

cheers
Xavier

use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 17/11/2005 15:19:04:

> 
> On 17 Nov 2005, at 01:42, Bruce A. Pokras 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
> >    put URL theURL into URL "binfile:1502503.pdf"
> > end mouseup
> >
> > Could it be that Rev is allergic to JavaServer Pages? I hope not. 
> > Thanks for any help that you might be able to give.
> 
> <mauling_by_sheep>
> This is a plea, not just to Bruce, but to all of you who do things 
> like this, most of whom should know better.
> 
> When you deal with URLs, especially internet URLs, things sometimes 
> go wrong. Often these things are outside of your control, such as the 
> network being busy, being given the wrong URL by your boss, your 
> ISP's data center being struck by an asteroid, or a dud hard drive.
> 
> It's important that you check that things happen as expected. So 
> every time you make a url request, always (i.e. always) check "the 
> result".
> 
> In the example above, there are two url requests in the same line. So 
> should you check the result twice? I'd say "yes". Something like this:
> 
> put URL theURL into theData
> put the result into theRes
> if theRes <> empty then
>    answer theRes ## or whatever you need to do
> else
>    put theData into URL "binfile:1502503.pdf"
>    put the result into theRes
>    if theRes is not empty then
>      answer theRes ## or whatever you need to do
>    else
>      ##carry on
>    end if
> end if
> 
> </mauling over>
> 
> Apart from that, I think Ken's pointer to  "libURLSetSSLVerification" 
> will probably work. This will mean that you won't be able to 
> authenticate the remote server. Perhaps OK for the patent office, but 
> probably not a good idea for doing bank transactions. The alternative 
> is to set the sslCertificates property to an appropriate certificates 
> file.
> 
> Cheers
> Dave
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