<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 7 May 2023, at 22:19, paul tarvydas <paultarvydas@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>I want to GET a URL and put the result into a string with as little fuss as possible, but nothing seems to work.<br><br>I am trying to follow:<br>https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/web-scraping.html<br><br>using SBCL and LispWorks.<br><br>I'm on a MacBook (Ventura) and am getting SSL errors (plus unicode errors in Lispworks).<br><br>Reminders as to how to fix such problems would be appreciated...<br><br>thanks<br>pt<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If all you need is to fetch whatever is at a url, the following should suffice:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(dexador:get "</span><a href="https://planet.lisp.org/">https://planet.lisp.org</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">")</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">or </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(drakma:http-request "</span><a href="https://planet.lisp.org/">https://planet.lisp.org</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">")</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What errors, if any, do you get from these?</span></div></body></html>