[ curl ]
[curl] enables the transfer of data with URL syntax. It supports DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP.
[curl] supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and many other useful tricks.
* As of Lasso 9.2.6 the curl type can be initialized with -username and -password parameters.
- Syntax
- Methods
- Traits
curl('url string')
curl('url string',-username='username',-password='password')*
* Valid as of Lasso 9.2.6Examples
- Beginner
To obtain the HTML output of a URL from a remote server and evaluate the size:
Use the [curl] method. The contents of the generated output is returned to the local variable.
Code
local(obj = curl('http://www.lassosoft.com/'))
'http://www.lassosoft.com/ has size: '+string(#obj)->sizeResult
http://www.lassosoft.com/ has size: 12220
To obtain the directory listing of a URL from a FTP server.
Use the [curl] method. The contents of the generated output is returned to the local variable.
Code
local(c = curl('ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/etext/'))
#c->resultResult
drwxrwxr-x 2 1137 1100 32768 Nov 29 1998 Atte drwxrwxr-x 2 1137 1100 32768 Mar 16 2010 Finnish lrwxrwxrwx 1 1137 1100 9 Sep 13 10:10 etext -> doc/etext drwxrwsr-x 31 1137 1100 32768 Feb 12 11:56 gutenberg drwxrwxr-x 2 1137 1100 32768 Nov 8 1998 hwb drwxrwxr-x 10 1137 1100 32768 Jan 15 2002 libellus drwxrwxr-x 2 1137 1100 32768 Sep 8 1999 mh drwxrwxr-x 8 1137 1100 32768 Mar 14 2000 ota drwxrwxr-x 12 1137 1100 32768 Oct 27 1996 runeberg drwxrwxr-x 9 1137 1100 32768 Jan 15 2002 wiretap-classic-library
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