On 11/8/2012 17:11, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, waldo kitty wrote:
i'm looking at creating a REST web application client... nothing fancy...
command line oriented... fire it up, it logs into the website and performs the
REST queries saving the output to named files...
i have no clue where to start looking in the FPC documentation or any existing
libraries... i have toyed with something using fpweb that would pull some
pages from a site for scraping but that idea is no longer being considered...
Why not ?
mainly because the data is better gathered from the other site with REST... no
need to screenscrape from there or have to deal with a lack of data because the
1st site hasn't gathered it ;)
firstly i'm not sure how to go about doing the login ops with cookies and
such... the site gives some assistance and examples for using wget and curl
but i think i'd prefer to handle this in my client... currently there's a
"normal" login on an existing non-REST site and then there's a new method of
login on the REST site... i haven't been able to figure out how to convert my
fpweb client so that it properly logs in and retains the login so that
subsequent queries will work...
I have done this in several projects using fpweb (specifically fphttpclient).
Usually it is simply a matter of retaining some cookies.
you should recall my recent foray into using that code... i had asked about
persistent connections because mine weren't completing until i included headers
to state the connection was to be closed...
if you give more details, maybe I can offer more help ?
i'm not sure what to give... i have no clue how to gather cookie data and send
it back based on the existing example(s) that i've seen :(
i do know that i was unable to use the REST site's sample wget cookie stuff make
requests to the "normal" login site... i don't know how to state that properly
since i'm not sure how either site is really working in this aspect... i only
know that the cookie stuff apparently didn't work as described by simply
changing the site address from one to the other...
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