World: r3wp

I have a block of value pairs, and can do a foreach [ascii chara][replace/all 
..] but that seems rather crude

I find it curious that nothing exists in the library for this?  Every 
web page sending a GET request to a Rebol cgi script escapes this 
stuff.  Am i the only one that needs to deal with it?

Most of us just need to do it the other way around -- and that's 
automatic:
>> to-url "carl S"
== carl S

Terry  --forget all that.
Try
  dehex

hmm :)

I need to read the Rebol dictionary more often ;)

So do I :-)

It's not a perfect solution, I still need a block of values to handle 
odd browser escaping.. for example, when you add a © to  a url, Mozilla 
escapes it with "%C2%A9"  .. adding that extra ascii character for 
some reason.

Add to that mess things like html forms replacing spaces with  "+" 
 .. "Carl+Sassenrath"  .. what a mess.

Take a look at 'dehex

>> dehex {%41%42%43}
== "ABC"

Terry, for want of a better way to handle this -- if you add the 
'accept-charset' attribute to the <form> tag, it will encode the 
way you want it:
accept-charset="windows-1252,iso-8859-1"

Otherwise, it defaults to what I assume is a Unicode pair for extended 
characters.

This just in .. Prince Charles to Marry Camilla Parker Bowles.. remember 
.. you heard it here first.

hmm.. and if Prince Charles ascends the throne in due course, he 
will head of the church of england?

That's the big debate at the moment.

The news is almost as big as http://maps.google.com/

perhaps if Charles relinquished his succession claims to the Queen's 
corgies, the public might find it more acceptable.

I wonder how the corgies feel about it?

So, is it true that the PM of NZ is XG?

Yeksoon. Happy New Chinesse Year.

We just love acronyms in this day and time don't we? ;-)

I was following the conversation up until XG. No idea who or what 
XG is.

Athiest.

so are Brian and I athiests for not knowing what XG means, or is 
the PM of NZ an athiest?

X-istential G-it?

I wouldn't worry too much what XG stands for .. we know that Reichart 
is a little dysgraphic at times.

So it *could* be GX?

could be asking if she wears XS size clothese for all I know :)

true

Who is the PM of NZ?

Still AM here...

heh

Dumb question that I've asked before: How do I tell Rebol/View what 
my browser is?

So far I've been able to cheat just by creating a symlink called 
'netscape' to my firefox executable, but it would be nice to just 
use the currently open firefox session

windows or linux?

Linux

didn't Jamie post some code that shows how to use an existing Firefox 
session?

... scrolling back ... yes indeed. Must be the brain shrinkage ;-)

Brian: browser for  Rebol/View >1.2.1 set-browser-path "path/to/firebird 
-url "

for Rebol/View 1.21 (may not work on linux): append clear netscan/def-browser 
"path/to/firebird -url "

First earthquake seafloor images back from SOC marine geologists 
in the Indian Ocean
http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/soc_home2.php?pagetype=news3&idx=223


The collision has forced up spectacular large thrust ridges up to 
1500 m high, higher than Ben Nevis. These unstable blocks have collapsed 
in places, producing large landslides several kilometres across that 
have scarred the seafloor.

Has anyone made a utility to download a complete web site?

that's not a very friendly thing to do.

and if you hit a website that is cgi based...you will be downloading 
from an infinite space.

Having said that, I think Bo has written a utility to spider a website

Do you have a link?

try the library ..

Don't find it there.  Oh well, I've got to log off and get some sleep. 
 I'll look better tomorrow.  Thanks, Graham.

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?color=yes&script=webcrawler.r

Carl's also written a links checker -- this may be easy to adapt 
to what you want by limiting it to internal URLs 

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=site-check.r

But as Graham says, if you run anything like this, be social. Many 
sites have banned things like HTTtrack (a website downloader) simply 
because they don't pace their requests.