Ant: Re: [Caml-list] Get a page from the Web

Ant: Re: [Caml-list] Get a page from the Web

[Martin Chabr]

That was fast! Thank you, Karl, I will have a look.

Martin

--- Karl Zilles <zilles@1969web.com> schrieb:

> Martin Chabr wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have been looking for ways to get a page in HTML
> > from the Web, using an OCaml program, something
> like
> > the following Python snippet:
> > 
> > import urllib
> > URL = "http://www.ibm.com"
> > url = urllib.urlopen(URL)
> > html = url.read()
> > 
> > You supply the URL and receive the page in HTML.
> Is
> > there anything simple like that in OCaml?
> 
> I use the Ocaml binding to the curl library.  It has
> worked well for me 
> and it can handle high level details like
> maintaining cookies across 
> calls (for session continuity and logins):
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocurl/
> 



	

	
		
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Re: Ant: Re: [Caml-list] Get a page from the Web

[Eric Cooper]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:47:02PM +0100, Martin Chabr wrote:
> --- Karl Zilles <zilles@1969web.com> schrieb:
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocurl/

Here are two other ways: the ocamlnet package has an HTTP client,
or you can use Unix.open_process_in with "curl" or "wget".

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Re: [Caml-list] Get a page from the Web

[Richard Jones]

And yet another way is to use perl4caml[1] and WWW::Mechanize[2] which
is wrapped by perl4caml.  This allows you to fairly easily navigate
websites (click links, push buttons, fill in forms and so on).

Rich.

[1] http://merjis.com/developers/perl4caml/
[2] http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm

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Ant: Re: [Caml-list] Get a page from the Web

[Martin Chabr]

Many thanks to all of you for the information!

Martin


	

	
		
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