Help with egghttp.tcl

Monty_ · Post by **Monty_** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:01 pm

When attempting to retrieve a web page, I get the following error:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"><HTML><HEAD><TITLE>400 Bad Request</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H1>Bad Request</H1>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<P>Invalid URI in request GET HTTP/2.0<P><HR><ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.humorscope.com Port 80</ADDRESS></BODY></HTML>

Does anyone understand this, and even better, know what's wrong?

Thanks

strikelight · Post by **strikelight** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:18 pm

might help if you posted your script that generated the error

Monty_ · Post by **Monty_** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:16 am

Good thinking:

bind pub - !horoscope horoscope

proc horoscope { nick uhost hand chan text } {

set sock [egghttp:geturl http://www.humorscope.com parse_horoscope]
return 1
}

proc parse_horoscope { sock } {
set headers [egghttp:headers $sock]
set body [egghttp:data $sock]
regsub -all "\n" $body "" body
regsub -all -nocase {<br>} $body "<br>\n" body
putserv "privmsg (chan) :$headers"
putserv "privmsg (chan) :$body"
}

The idea is to look at how the HTML comes across so I can decide how to parse it.

strikelight · Post by **strikelight** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 2:01 am

Change:

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set sock [egghttp:geturl http://www.humorscope.com parse_horoscope]

To:

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set sock [egghttp:geturl http://www.humorscope.com/ parse_horoscope]

Monty_ · Post by **Monty_** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:05 pm

Geez, that's all it took.

Thanks

awyeah · Post by **awyeah** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:11 pm

Even a missing single character "\" can make an script error and render a script useless.

When we goto a url:

http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.yahoo.com/
www.yahoo.com

For us all would give the same output, however the input is different.
Thats what we sometimes forget, in scripting and coding this is different.

Strikelight is a master in egghttp.tcl and these types of scripts which retreive data from websites and parse them through onto irc channels as privmsgs and notices, so he knows well!