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Re: Checking a URL from OpenVMS

 
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Harold Johnson_1
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Re: Checking a URL from OpenVMS

Wow. Lots of comments, some of which are worth reading.

The command I use is:

$CURL "url..."

That's it. Yes, the db is not available to the public. Thnx for the help all, I'll try some of the suggestions out.
Volker Halle
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Re: Checking a URL from OpenVMS

Harold,

if you have received useful replies, please have a look at

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

and consider to assign points to the answers you've received.

Thanks,

Volker.
Harold Johnson_1
Occasional Advisor

Re: Checking a URL from OpenVMS

I will continue to use cURL as this utility serves 90% of my needs.

thnx all
Steven Schweda
Honored Contributor

Re: Checking a URL from OpenVMS

Does that mean that you _did_ get it to
work, or that you didn't?

I gather that cURL has a "-v" option which
might tell you more about what it's doing.
(_You_ should have such an option.)

I'd be interested to know if Wget did any
better (or differently).
Harold Johnson_1
Occasional Advisor

Re: Checking a URL from OpenVMS

The main reason for the thread was to find out if there was a utility to retrieve web pages from VMS. Using cURL, I can do this. I can't get it working with the sample that I provided, but at the least, it lets me know that the Oracle report server is available and running. The remaining 10% will be to see if I can get the sample actually running.

thnx
P. Fournier
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Re: Checking a URL from OpenVMS

For running Oracle report with CURL, you have to replace the '&' by '+' in the URL

So your command line has to be :


$CURL http://ila.educ.gov.bc.ca/dev60cgi/rwcgi60?ila+report=DoNotDelete.rep+destype=cac
he+desformat=HTML

Note that DESTYPE=cache may not work in this case (you should replace it by DESTYPE=file and add DESNAME=)

Hope this helps.