Re: Beginners Digest, Vol 4, Issue 34

Thank you gentlemen

@Damien  you are quite right, networking may be too difficult to begin with. It is just that in some languages, e.g. Rebol, fetching http is trivially simple. I was hoping it might be similar in Smalltalk.

@Stephane.  Thanks, I shall go and look directly.

Cheers
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> Thank you gentlemen
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> @Damien  you are quite right, networking may be too difficult to begin
> with. It is just that in some languages, e.g. Rebol, fetching http is
> trivially simple. I was hoping it might be similar in Smalltalk.


I'm pretty sure this is simple, I don't know that's all :-)


I tried Rebol some years ago, I even bought a french book. But the book
was bad and I never learned to like Rebol due to this :-(
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try

'http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/index.html' asUrl retrieveContents

you get a mine object....

Stef


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> @Damien  you are quite right, networking may be too difficult to begin with. It is just that in some languages, e.g. Rebol, fetching http is trivially simple. I was hoping it might be similar in Smalltalk.

Not so hard in smalltalk actually and you can do some powerful stuff
like stephane and Benjamin showed you... it should be feaseable for
instance to query google and parse the resulting stream without using
any webservices stuffs...

The main difficulty is to find the right class and the right
parameters ;) ...  and for that navigating in the code is essential..
it took me one year to get used to it (at leat but I'm not really fast
;) )

really look at the class side of HttpClient ;)

Cédrick

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