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Is it possible to load web content?

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
September 9, 2010
4 replies
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Hello,

I'd like to know if its possible to load a file (an xml file) from a web resource with a given address like: http://server.com/file.xml.

I tried to do this with

myDocument.importXML(File(file));

but this does not seem to work.

Thanks in advance and kind regards,

mannyk

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Loic.Aigon

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Nice

Loic.Aigon

Legend

@Trevor,

I tried to implement a product activation system with it but it didn't pass a large corporations firewall

Yeah I came into the same trouble

Nice that you could circumvent it somehow.

Trevor:

Legend

Hi Loic,

I won't post a working link but you can try out this one.

http://activation.creative-scripts.com/index.php/f72d9e737de8b2289d1a/elizabeth@palace.gov.uk/HRM/activate/

In a working one you would get a code and instructions of how activate the program with it.

You can have the script generate a random number and generate a matching link, the link will only work with that particular installation because only that installation will have that random number. The link will automatically update the online SQL and once the links been used once it will no longer work.

With a bit of creativity should should be able to get a working system.

HTH

Trevor

Marc Autret

Legend

Also, you can perform HTTP requests very easily by using the http module of the Extendables library from Stijn Debrouwere, as demonstrated here:

http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2010/11/my-first-extendables-script-for-indesign

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Marc

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RorohikoKris-3tbJf9

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Hi Marc,

Marc Autret

Legend

Hi Kris.

;-)

Kasyan Servetsky

Legend

Check out this podcast at Kris Coppieters' blog.

Kasyan

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Anonymous

Hello,

thanks for the link. It helped to get the text of the web resource!

However, I don't know how I can import the xml text as an xml file.

var data = GetURL("http://server.com/xmlfile.xml",false);
myDocument.importXML(data.body);

does not work.

Regards,

mannyk

Kasyan Servetsky

Legend

ok I know this post is really, really old at this point -- but the code above actually has a problem for those using it post Marty-McFly 2015.

HTTP requires a CR and LF after each header, not just a LF. This may have worked fine a few years ago but web endpoints are getting more and more strict these days with security concerns and such, and I found many servers reject HTTP requests that aren't 100% up to par.

... so replace this section of code above (basically I've just replaced all the "\n"s with "\r\n"s. I this I also tweaked the headers a bit, but that's less important than just making sure it's "\r\n" not just "\n":

.

//
// Dynamically build an HTTP 1.1 request.
//
if (isBinary)
{
   var request =
   "GET /" + parsedURL.path + " HTTP/1.1\r\n" +
   "Host: " + parsedURL.address + "\r\n" +
   "User-Agent: InDesign ExtendScript\r\n" +
   "Accept: */*\r\n" +
   "Connection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n";
}
else
{
var request =
   "GET /" + parsedURL.path + " HTTP/1.1\r\n" +
   "Host: " + parsedURL.address + "\r\n" +
   "User-Agent: InDesign ExtendScript/1.0\r\n" +
   "Accept: */*\r\n" +
   "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r\n" +
   "Content-Length: 0\r\n" +
   "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"+
"Connection: close\r\n\r\n";
}

.

Thank you very much for updating the code! I've posted the whole script for the future generations of scripters here on my site in the Miscellaneous InDesign scripting tips & tricks section.

Regards,
Kasyan

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