[REBOL] Re: Passing a cookie back to the server
From: gjones05:mail:orion at: 8-Jun-2001 17:44
From: "Graham Chiu"
> "GS Jones" <[gjones05--mail--orion--org]> wrote:
> >
> > then, use the cookie like so...
> >
> > page: read http://my.cookie-site.com reduce ['cookie mold
> > my-cookie]
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> What's the syntax for read/custom ie. posting data as well
> as sending a cookie?
Hi, Graham,
Your question has spurred two issues. First, as you may have already noticed, I
*forgot* to put the custom refinement in the above instruction ("If I only had a
brain," Scarecrow - Wizard of Oz). Second, as I mentioned, the cookie has not
tried with a post, and with your question, I suddenly realized that there may be
a bug (there is an error in logic, but it may still work despite this oversite).
I haven't had (taken) the time to find a site to try this out on yet. :-(
The syntax is **supposed** to be like this:
page: read/custom http://my.cookie-site.com reduce [
'cookie mold my-cookie
'post "data: 10"
]
or this if no reduction/molding is needed (yuck, mold on the cookies;-):
page: read/custom http://my.cookie-site.com [
cookie my-cookie
post "data: 10"
]
Again, please don't spend a lot of time on it if it doesn't work easily. I
should be able to get a much closer look at it this weekend and test it like it
should have been before posting it to the list!!
Do feel free to give me feedback, though. :-)
And Petr Krenzelok wrote separartely:
> page: read/custom http://my.post-site.com reduce ['post post-string]
yes, thanks for catching my oversite!!
> however, if for e.g. the request serves for download of big file, it will
> eat your memory. Even using 'open will not help here. There seem to be no
> simple way of partial readout from the port, simply to construct something
> like while [data: copy/part my-opened-port buffer-size][insert
> local-opened-file data]
>
> Or am I wrong? :-)
I was thinking early that maybe there is a way to include the following three
things:
1) cookie management (getting/sending and otherwise)
2) port control for managing longer downloads
3) basic authorization
The /custom refinement leaves some room for managing the transaction in a ...
well ... custom way (hey, maybe they should call it /custom refinement ... oh,
they did;-). I'm getting more comfortable poking around in the schemes, so
maybe this weekend I can get some of this ironed out, and firm up the ideal
syntax. (But I still need to finish my Command and Control Script written in
the Prez dialect for replacing the space shuttle's Ada programs!!!! That is OK,
right, Jeff K.? ;-)
Sorry about the syntax oversite.
--Scott Jones
