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Xeon
Reading a text file from a web server?
May 1st, 2007, 2:07pm  
Allright so lets say I have a web server and I have a textfile located on it. Lets take for example, this:
http://turpspages.freehostia.com/test.txt
How could processing read it? Would it work if the "compiled" applet was located on the same web server? I tried getting it with the net library and a GET request but I must have done something wrong cause it didnt worked. Perhaps is there a way to work in conjunction with a PHP script? Because I would also need to write data... If I could open a web page with a PHP script I could write data allright but not read it. So my questions:
1)Any way to read a .txt's content thats located on a webserver?
2)Any way to write in it?
3)Any way to open a webpage or change the current page the applet is running on?

Thanks.
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JohnG
Re: Reading a text file from a web server?
Reply #1 - May 1st, 2007, 2:38pm  
1: You can put a URL into loadStrings, which makes things fairly easy, though as yo umentioned, it must be on the same site that the applet is located.

2: The only way to write to it is to write some PHP that can processing can send information to, and have that write to the file.

3: http://processing.org/reference/link_.html
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Xeon
Re: Reading a text file from a web server?
Reply #2 - May 1st, 2007, 10:55pm  
Well thanks a lot for those answers!
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