Re: How to include weather
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It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 34504
interpreted = N
texte = I never tried this but what if you had a trigger that had a [redirec ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/summaries/weather/wa.txt] in it. Where would the file download to?Then, you could have a [waitforfile] that would move it to the right spot on your webserver and then use [include file=wa.txt] to load it.I have used [redirect] to a file on an ftp server before, but never in a trigger.- Charles >Thanks Ken that is what I thought. > >Jeff Logan > > > >> >>I want to include the file at >> >>ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/summaries/weather/wa.txt >> >> >> >>the wa.txt in my web site how would I do this? >> > >> >[TCPConnect] shows an example of grabbing the text from a URL from >> >another site. The example shows how to get the home page url /, but >> >you can add more to your URL to get a different page. >> >>Except for one thing -- TCPConnect does not work with ftp url's, and >>the url above is an ftp url. So unless there's a web server on this >>box that can serve this page via http, TCPConnect is not going to >>work for you. >> >>And if that is the case here, I would suggest downloading the file to >>your server and including it in your page via a standard [include > >file=wa.txt] tag. >>------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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I never tried this but what if you had a trigger that had a [redirec ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/summaries/weather/wa.txt] in it. Where would the file download to?Then, you could have a [waitforfile] that would move it to the right spot on your webserver and then use [include file=wa.txt] to load it.I have used [redirect] to a file on an ftp server before, but never in a trigger.- Charles >Thanks Ken that is what I thought. > >Jeff Logan > > > >> >>I want to include the file at >> >>ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/summaries/weather/wa.txt >> >> >> >>the wa.txt in my web site how would I do this? >> > >> >[tcpconnect] shows an example of grabbing the text from a URL from >> >another site. The example shows how to get the home page url /, but >> >you can add more to your URL to get a different page. >> >>Except for one thing -- TCPConnect does not work with ftp url's, and >>the url above is an ftp url. So unless there's a web server on this >>box that can serve this page via http, TCPConnect is not going to >>work for you. >> >>And if that is the case here, I would suggest downloading the file to >>your server and including it in your page via a standard [include > >file=wa.txt] tag. >>------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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