World: r3wp

gabriele, so you can rename a file while it runs?

not that i know of.

nren.exe downloads a new file, update.exe; it runs it; update.exe 
overwrites nren.exe with itself, then runs it; nren.exe deletes update.exe

normal updates do not require this, it's only needed when you are 
for eg upgrading rebol itself.

thanks, I could get rid of DOS that way

daytime is just read daytime://ip.address isn't it?

I get failures on all the ntp servers I've tried so far.

daytime doesn't use the ntp protocol IIRC

You need a daytime server

http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-13.html#section-7

So, looking for a daytime server ...

just finding restaurants looking for waiters!

Maybe related to this but no 100% sure. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=timed&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html

Don't trust Jaime, his clock are famous for being imprecise :-)

Rebol [
	Title: "NIST clock"
	File: "nistclock.r"
	Author: "Ladislav Mecir"
	Date: 25-Mar-2007/23:43:24+2:00
]

get-nist-correction: func [/local nist-time cpu-time mjd hms] [
	nist-time: read daytime://time-a.nist.gov
	cpu-time: now

 parse/all nist-time [skip copy mjd 5 skip 2 thru " " copy hms 8 skip]
	nist-time: 18/Nov/1858 + to integer! mjd
	nist-time/time: to time! hms
	nist-correction: difference cpu-time nist-time
]
get-nist-correction

view/new layout [
	banner 140x32 rate 1 with [data: 0:0:0] feel [
		engage: func [face action event] [
			current-time: now + nist-correction
			face/text: current-time/time
			show face
		]
	]
]
do-events

http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm

(don't use the GET-NIST-CORRECTION function more often than once 
in 4 seconds)

My apologies to Jaime and everyone, I deserve what happened. Posting 
a correction:

Rebol [
	Title: "NIST clock"
	File: "nistclock.r"
	Author: "Ladislav Mecir"
	Date: 6-Apr-2007/8:32:57+2:00
]

get-nist-correction: func [
	{Never use this function more often than once in four seconds!}
	/local nist-time cpu-time mjd hms
] [
	nist-time: read daytime://time-a.nist.gov
	cpu-time: now

 parse/all nist-time [skip copy mjd 5 skip 2 thru " " copy hms 8 skip]
	nist-time: 18/Nov/1858 + to integer! mjd
	nist-time/time: to time! hms
	difference nist-time cpu-time
]

correction-interval: 181
seconds-to-correction: 1

view/new layout [
	banner 140x32 rate 1 with [data: 0:0:0] feel [
		engage: func [face action event] [
			seconds-to-correction: seconds-to-correction - 1
			if zero? seconds-to-correction [
				nist-correction: get-nist-correction
				seconds-to-correction: correction-interval
			]
			current-time: now + nist-correction
			face/text: current-time/time
			show face
		]
	]
]
do-events

Quick dumb question: I have to post some data to a web site that 
requires authentication. How do I specify the username and password? 
I forget...

The password in question is incompatible with url! syntax.

system/schemes/http/user: "user"    system/schemes/http/pass:  "pass" 
  ??

a: read/custom [site: "www.site.com" scheme: 'http user: "user" pass: 
"pass"] [post  "stuff"]

First didn't work, second gave invalid port spec error.

Umm, is it https?  Need rebcmd for that I think.  or add port: 80 
 maybe...

Sorry, I get it wrong everytime.  It's host:  not site:

If it matters, I am accessing an Outlook Web Access site, https scheme, 
with /Command.

Try  host: "..."  scheme: 'https ...    my mistake.

That worked, but now I'm getting a "Method not allowed" error from 
the server. I'm trying to enable junk email folders on an Exchange 
server and apparently the only way to do so is with a 100+ line VBScript 
that translates to a one-line REBOL script, but neither seem to work 
with this server.

try  [url: "www.site.com/prog.cgi" ...]  instead of host::

I tried host and path and that builds the url properly, but now I 
get a different server error that REBOL doesn't print all of so I 
can't see it. I can't seem to trap the error so I can print the whole 
thing.

Or maybe  [host: "www.site.com" url: "prog.cgi"]

Can you prepend the read with print to get the rest of the message?

>> probe decode-url http://www.junk.net/path/to/index.html
make object! [
    user: none
    pass: none
    host: "www.junk.net"
    port-id: none
    path: "path/to/"
    target: "index.html"
]

try with those...

It never gets to the read - it fails on open. When I tried TRACE/NET 
ON I saw the error: HTTP/1.1 440 Login Timeout
What's that?

https authentication.  No experience.  Sorry.

what type of authentication is it?

It's Basic authentication.

is it simple authentication ?

ok.

AFAICT

Authorization: Basic Q0NFU1xBZG1pbmlzdHJhdG9yOiFNVFVTQSYqKA==

Is that digest?

read/custom http://user:[password-:-somewere-:-com] [ post ... ] doesn't 
work?

because the password has some funny characters in it??

It does.

Ok, you can change the parse rule to allow the @ or whatever

Nonetheless, the error I got with the port spec is the same that 
the VBScript from Microsoft's web site gets.

Any way to increase the timeout?