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Hi!

I really get mad with the InetGet function. My program should check if there is a dedicated file online on a webserver. So:

$online = InetGet("url")

if $online = 1 then
msgbox(0, "Onlinestatus:", "Online")
else
msgbox(0, "Onlinestatus:", "Offline")
endif

Very simple program it seems, but it lies. I checked the URL with firefox and could see the textfile. Then I copied and pasted the URL in my script, and it says: Offline. But that is not true, the rights of the file are set to 777 and everyone can view it. Only my program cant.

Sorry, I do not know what to do :)

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I really get mad with the InetGet function.

You should resist that - bad for the stress levels... :D

My program should check if there is a dedicated file online on a webserver. 

$online = InetGet("url")

if $online = 1 then
msgbox(0, "Onlinestatus:", "Online")
else
msgbox(0, "Onlinestatus:", "Offline")
endif
I don't think that is a valid use of InetGet(). Even though the help file shows the filename parameter as optional, that is only true in the special case of InetGet("Abort"). You need to specify a local file to save the data to.

:)

Valuater's AutoIt 1-2-3, Class... Is now in Session!For those who want somebody to write the script for them: RentACoder"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." -- Geek's corollary to Clarke's law
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Hm, thanks :)

I did so, and the funny thing is, it can download a file which doesnt exist! Example:

$online = InetGet("http:foo.com/bar.txt", "online.txt")

Then it creates a textfile with some stuff in it.. And there begin the new problems. It downloads a file which does not exist :hate: ! It creates a textfile named online.txt. A part of the content:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

<head>

<title>Seite

...

I compared the file downloaded with the sourcecode from the error 404 site: They are the same.

Maybe there is the problem? I think the program thinks that the error 404 site is a positive result. How can i prevent this?

And then it says: Yes filestatus Online. But that is not true, because I deleted the file from the webserver and noone is able to view it (just because it does not exist).

Please Im hopeless...

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What you are seeing make sense to me. In a regular browser, try to look at http://www.autoitscript.com/none_such.html. You DO get a page back; an error page:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>AutoItScript Error</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<link href="css/default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

<div id="container">
<body>
<p><img src="/images/autoit_6_240x100.jpg" width="240" height="100"></p>
<p><strong><em>&quot;404: The page/file you requested could not be found.&quot;</em></strong></p>
<p> Sorry! We can't find the file or page you asked for. If you came from an external site the links may be out of date.&nbsp; </p>

<p>Please try the <a href="/index.php">AutoItScript</a> home page, the <a href="/autoit3/">AutoIt
  v3</a> page or the <a href="/AutoIt/">AutoIt v2</a> home page to find your file.</p>
</body>
</div>
</html>

So you will have to look at the contents of online.txt to see if it is what you wanted, or an error page.

:)

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If what you are downloading is not supposed to be a web page at all, that will work.

If what you wanted was a web page and you want to know if you got an error page instead you could check the <title> field.

$Output = "output.txt"
$sOutput = FileRead($Output, FileGetSize($Output))
If _StringBetween($sOutput, "<title>", "</title>") = "AutoItScript Error" Then MsgBox(16, "Error", "Got error.")

If you wind up very far down that path, you'll be better off to switch to IE.au3 functions instead of InetGet().

:)

Valuater's AutoIt 1-2-3, Class... Is now in Session!For those who want somebody to write the script for them: RentACoder"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." -- Geek's corollary to Clarke's law
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Okay I understand, sounds logical either. But for my purposes your first solutions is good enough (but now I know what to do if the case is as complicated as you described).

I have got another problem:

I want to implent variables in the URL. Hard to explain, but the user inputs some variables.

$var1 = 1

$var2 = 2

$var3 = 3

;the url should be: http://foo.fo.host.de/web/123.txt, so:

$url = "http:// foo.fo.host.de/web/" & $var1 & $var2 & $var3 & ".txt"

;I showed the url with a msgbox and it was correctly: http::// foo.fo.host.de/web/123.txt , but the checkroutine gives an error. $url = "http:// foo.fo.host.de/web/123.txt" doesnt.

Is the expression _ $url = "http:// foo.fo.host.de/web/" & $var1 & $var2 & $var3 & ".txt" _ correct? In my eyes there is the mistake.

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I have got another problem:

I want to implent variables in the URL. Hard to explain, but the user inputs some variables.

$var1 = 1

$var2 = 2

$var3 = 3

;the url should be: http://foo.fo.host.de/web/123.txt, so:

$url = "http:// foo.fo.host.de/web/" & $var1 & $var2 & $var3 & ".txt"

;I showed the url with a msgbox and it was correctly: http::// foo.fo.host.de/web/123.txt , but the checkroutine gives an error. $url = "http:// foo.fo.host.de/web/123.txt" doesnt.

Is the expression _ $url = "http:// foo.fo.host.de/web/" & $var1 & $var2 & $var3 & ".txt" _ correct? In my eyes there is the mistake.

There is a space between "http://" and "foo." that probably doesn't belong... :)

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