HTTP api

Hello there

I'm playing on a server, with http api enabled, and it doesn't seem to get the text

bin = "hrey35f"		   (<-- sample)
txt = http.request("http://pastebin.com/" ..bin)
local event, url, sourceText = os.pullEvent("http_success")
su = fs.open("startup","w")
su.write(txt)

I've used that for a long time, but it doesn'r write anything to "startup"

Why is this?

why don't you just use the pastebin program thats made for you?

also just a side note you're not getting the raw version of the paste, just the html formatted one.

Yeah, as TOB said - you need to request from the raw website of the code from pastebin:

local response = http.get("http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i="..textutils.urlEncode( bin ))

What the textutils.urlEncode does is encode the url, like change spaces into % signs etc, can't remember exactly what it does, but in this case - you probably wouldn't need it.

Just open the website on your browser with the raw website and you can see the difference.

remiX, on 30 January 2013 - 03:23 AM said:

What the textutils.urlEncode does is encode the url, like change spaces into % signs etc, can't remember exactly what it does, but in this case - you probably wouldn't need it.

Yeh defs not needed for pastebin urls. but it basically turns all non-alphanumeric character into its percent escaped equivalent.