Extracting Data From a HTML Page

[electraboy]

I'd like to write a simple html page with flash in which i can control another application on my network.
The command for this application are very simple. It's something like

http:///><ip-adress>>:80/command.

If i execute these in the browserwindow, some commands return data. Like //ipadress:80/stop returns 1 (for succesfull) but other commands like //ipdaress:80/version returns more information.

I control this program with flash as described further:
I have some buttons on level0 and a movieclip called &quot;buffer&quot;.
The buttons has actions like &quot;
on (release) {
loadMovie (&quot;

http://ipadress:80/stop&quot;,buffer)

}
which works fine, but how can i get the information that is returned ?

Or is there another way i should call these commands ?
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Murphy's Laws​

 

[billwatson]

Is this for visitor tracking purposes....get the IP address, browser, language etc. or do you have something else in mind?
If its for visitor tracking I can show you a good method using flash and php, with a mySQL database for storage as thats what I use myself. Also allows for tracking where visitors go within an all flash site. Oldnewbie appears to think this is his personal forum. His replys are gospel...he knows it all.

 

[electraboy]

I want to use this information as data in flash. And i can't use php because it's a file to be used on the intranet thus i'd would be a little a slow-down to use an external php server. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Murphy's Laws​

 

[bgreenhouse]

Depending on what kind of data is coming back, and how it's coming back, you could have it write the data to a text or xml file, and read the data in from there...

B

 

[electraboy]

Well, the data is just returned as plain textlike i mentioned before.
When i perform this action

http://disco:80/getversion

it returns 4.2.0.0 and when i perform

http://disco:80/getplaylist

it returns an entire playlist, separated with a cariage return It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Murphy's Laws​

 

[bgreenhouse]

Hi Electraboy

Depending on what you want to do, this sounds like a great place to use XML. You could make an xml file that looks like:

<playlist>
<track1>dsfasdf1.mp3</track1>
<track2>dsfasdf2.mp3</track2>
<track3>dsfasdf3.mp3</track3>
</playlist>

then you would read it in. XML and Flash works beautifully on a &quot;non-server&quot; environment. If you think this will work in your situation, I'll try to dig up some online resources. A book I found very useful was &quot;XML in Flash&quot;, but there are quite a few online tutorials (maybe even at macromedia.com) that are helpful.

Hope this helps,

Ben

 

[electraboy]

Hi,
This could indeed work.
But i can't change anything about the fact that the data returned is plain text.
So, if there is a way to put this text in a xml.file, please let me know.


It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Murphy's Laws​