Apologies for following up on my own mail, but I forgot to explicitly mention that you will need to specify the appropriate proxy information in the call to getURLContent().
D. On 6/7/12 8:31 AM, Duncan Temple Lang wrote: > To just enable cookies and their management, use the cookiefile > option, e.g. > > txt = getURLContent(url, cookiefile = "") > > Then you can pass this to readHTMLTable(), best done as > > content = readHTMLTable(htmlParse(txt, asText = TRUE)) > > > The function readHTMLTable() doesn't use RCurl and doesn't > handle cookies. > > D. > > On 6/7/12 7:33 AM, mdvaan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to access a website and read its content. The website is a >> restricted access website that I access through a proxy server (which >> therefore requires me to enable cookies). I have problems in allowing Rcurl >> to receive and send cookies. >> >> The following lines give me: >> >> library(RCurl) >> library(XML) >> >> url <- "http://www.theurl.com"; >> content <- readHTMLTable(url) >> >> content >> $`NULL` >> >> >> >> V1 >> 1 >> >> >> 2 >> >> >> Cookies disabled >> 3 >> >> >> 4 Your browser currently does not accept cookies.\rCookies need to be >> enabled for Scopus to function properly.\rPlease enable session cookies in >> your browser and try again. >> >> $`NULL` >> V1 V2 V3 >> 1 >> >> $`NULL` >> V1 >> 1 Cookies disabled >> >> $`NULL` >> V1 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> >> I have carefully read section 4.4. from this: >> http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/RCurlJSS.pdf and tried the following without >> succes: >> >> curl <- getCurlHandle() >> curlSetOpt(cookiejar = 'cookies.txt', curl = curl) >> >> Any suggestions on how to allow for cookies? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Math >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-set-cookies-in-RCurl-tp4632693.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
