[PD] https get in Pd

[Roman Haefeli]

On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 15:26 +0200, oliver wrote:
> Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 13:55 +0200, Nicolas Montgermont wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > > 
> > > What is the easiest way to get the content of a https webpage in
> > > pd,
> > > for example this one:
> > > 
https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/CYDA.TXT
> > > Is there any patch that can do this around?
> > > 
> 
> also consider using those objects that command line executions:
> 
> WINDOWS: [system] (in the "motex" library)
> LINUX & OSX: [shell] (in the "ggee" library)
> 
> you can get them via deken ("Help/Find Externals")
> 
> 
> since those objecs are very basic and the syntax can be tricky (PD 
> doesn't allow backslashes for example) my way of using them is to 
> compose/write the command i would type into a shell/terminal into a
> text 
> file, save it, and then call it from within PD using above objects.
> 
> (backslashes or other special characters can be emulated with [list 
> tosymbol], if that fails consider using [binfile] from "mrpeach")
> 
> with this method you can pretty much do anything inside a PD patch
> that 
> you would be doing in a terminal.

Yes, you can, but it is not portable (as it requires different
solutions depending on platform) and requires additional filesystem
interactions. Using [shell] (or [system] for that matter) has all kinds
of side effects, like [shell] searches scripts relative to Pd start
location instead of relative to Pd patch. I wouldn't recommend using
those.

Roman
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