simple URL GET

[Steve Haflich]

Or you could consider running curl or wget as a subprocess.


On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 2:59 PM Raymond Wiker <rwiker at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On 7 May 2023, at 22:19, paul tarvydas <paultarvydas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I want to GET a URL and put the result into a string with as little fuss
> as possible, but nothing seems to work.
>
> I am trying to follow:
> https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/web-scraping.html
>
> using SBCL and LispWorks.
>
> I'm on a MacBook (Ventura) and am getting SSL errors (plus unicode errors
> in Lispworks).
>
> Reminders as to how to fix such problems would be appreciated...
>
> thanks
> pt
>
>
>
> If all you need is to fetch whatever is at a url, the following should
> suffice:
>
> (dexador:get "https://planet.lisp.org")
>
> or
>
> (drakma:http-request "https://planet.lisp.org")
>
> What errors, if any, do you get from these?
>
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