mdm
2nd December 2003 21:11 UTC

reading xml from web site
I can open file and read from file, but how does it work with a web page? My installer needs to retrieve a list of servers located at url site. Working with IEFunctions.dll. Any other places I should be looking?

thanks,
mdm

Joost Verburg
2nd December 2003 22:00 UTC

Use NSISdl to download the file.

If it's a regular text file you can parse it using standard NSIS functions.

mdm
3rd December 2003 00:15 UTC

ok NSISdl seems to be built for file downloads, but not for the actual content of the web page being viewed.

I need to grab the text off of that html page, not multiple mirror sites that offer some kind of download handle.

mdm

kichik
3rd December 2003 11:29 UTC

NSISdl gives you the exact text the server gave you. It's up to you to process it and download another page if needed.

mdm
3rd December 2003 17:19 UTC

sorry, still having problems...
Usage:
StrCpy $2 "$INSTDIR\Winamp Installer.exe"
NSISdl::download http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/...mp281_lite.exe $2
Pop $R0

$R0=HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy authentication required

any clues to what is wrong here?

thanks,
mdm

mdm
3rd December 2003 17:39 UTC

NSISdl call was actually:
NSISdl::download http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/...mp281_lite.exe $2

kichik
3rd December 2003 17:48 UTC

NSISdl doesn't yet support proxy authentication.

mdm
3rd December 2003 18:12 UTC

is there a way for installer to scrape the page seeing as I can open and close it, but cannot download due to my proxy authentication problem.

should I use some other language (maybe called from bat file) to scrape page once it is open?

mdm

kichik
4th December 2003 13:46 UTC

The only way I know is using Internet Explorer's API. For that you'd have to write your own plug-in or find a command line tool that uses it.