[drakma-devel] Re: drakma help

[Edi Weitz]

Hi Cyrus,

On Wed, 9 May 2007 16:27:57 -0700, Cyrus Harmon <cyrus at cyrusharmon.org> wrote:

[Cc to mailing list.]

> So I've been trying to do http-requesting with DRAKMA and I see some
> weird results:
>
> (drakma:http-request "http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?
> Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch- 
> adv.htm&r=80&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=affymetrix&p=2&OS=affymetrix&RS=affymetr
> ix")

Seems Paul Graham's Arc server is not the only one which sends wrong
line endings.  Luckily, Chunga was modified to cope with that just two
days ago... :)

  CL-USER 15 > (let ((chunga:*accept-bogus-eols* t)
                     (drakma:*header-stream* *standard-output*))
                 (nth-value 1 (drakma:http-request "http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=80&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=affymetrix&p=2&OS=affymetrix&RS=affymetrix")))
  GET /netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=80&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=affymetrix&p=2&OS=affymetrix&RS=affymetrix HTTP/1.1
  Host: patft.uspto.gov
  User-Agent: Drakma/0.7.0 (LispWorks 5.0.2; Windows NT; Windows XP: 5.1 (build 2600) Service Pack 2; http://weitz.de/drakma/)
  Accept: */*
  Connection: close

  HTTP/1.0 200 Script results follow
  Server: NetAnswer Server 1.0
  Content-Type: text/html

  200

Cheers,
Edi.