Operating system code test request...

[bogs]

I run 'nix, and this works fairly well on that for locating an IP address. I can test this on Windows as well, but what I would like is for a bunch of volunteers to test it out from (hopefully) a lot of individual machines and see if it works for them.

All you should have to do is open the messagebox in the IDE, and put ~

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put shell("curl ipinfo.io")

If it works on your OS, you should see something like this returned -

...testing, testing...

I don't need any of the information you see returned !!!!

What I would like to know is -
1. your operating system
2. Lc version ( OPTIONAL )
3. did this work or not ?
4. if it worked, was it complete ?
5. if it worked and was complete, was it accurate? Semi accurate? Complete garbage?

Thank you in advance for testing (and letting me know the results).

[richmond62]

1. your operating system: MacOS 11.5 beta 1
2. Lc version ( OPTIONAL ): 9.6.2 Stable
3. did this work or not ?: worked
4. if it worked, was it complete ?: as far as I can tell.
5. if it worked and was complete, was it accurate? Semi accurate? Complete garbage?

See for yourself:
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[bogs]

Thanks for testing, is "Sofia" accurate? Semi accurate? Close enough for government work? Hee hee.

Let me put it another way, if you were going to list your location for say, a local weather report, is it close enough?

[richmond62]

Sofia is 2 hours away with a mountain range in between.

[bogs]

Cool shakes, thanks a lot!

[jacque]

I get an error on Android. I'm not surprised because Android doesn't allow curl commands from apps, and I suspect iOS doesn't either. I doubt you're planning to build for mobile though.

[FourthWorld]

curl is not normally needed in LiveCode.

LC's libURL provides a robust foundation for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP, in all LiveCode editions, including Community.

tsNet provides more nuanced control for those and a few others, and is the curl library wrapped in the LC externals interface.

libURL can handle the request shown in the OP quite easily with the built-in GET command.

For anything else one needs from curl, tsNet had you covered.

You would only need to call curl from shell if you need some specific functionality beyond HTTP, HTTPS,. and FTP, and will be deploying with the LC Community Edition where the proprietary tsNet external is not included.

[bogs]

I get an error on Android. I'm not surprised because Android doesn't allow curl commands from apps, and I suspect iOS doesn't either. I doubt you're planning to build for mobile though.

I have no doubt you are correct, you certainly are correct in that I have no plans to incorporate or use this knowledge on mobile

@Richard -
I had never looked into libUrl, or tsNet, however I did try to look up how you would use it after you mentioned it here.

tsNet is a non-starter for the reason you mentioned...

...deploying with the LC Community Edition where the proprietary tsNet external is not included.

As far as libUrl goes, it appears most of the wrapper commands are longer than the entire shell line is, and while I understand what curl is doing, I'd be less than honest if I said I understood which of the 20 different lines under it ...


would be the equivalent of

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shell("curl ipinfo.io")

...and even if I did know ( I may experiment later ), I would almost have to assume I would get back the same information to parse, so it doesn't look like a code saver from where I am sitting.

Again though, I am unfamiliar with it, what would be the primary advantage to using it over just shell'ing it?

*Edit - I spent time experimenting with the address and libUrlDownloadToFile, and got no information back, so I think I'll probably stick with 'curl'.

*Edit 2 - I didn't see how any of the other libUrl wrappers would even be workable for what I was doing.

[jacque]

Mac OS X Mojave: returns my exact city and state.

[FourthWorld]

libURL is a special library deeply integrated with the LC engine. The descriptive command names you listed are rarely needed for most common day-to-day tasks.

See the "get url" and "post" commands.

For example, all you need to use native LC for what you've shown in this thread for curl is:

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get url "ipinfo.io"

[bogs]

Mac OS X Mojave: returns my exact city and state.

Beautiful!

libURL is a special library deeply integrated with the LC engine. The descriptive command names you listed are rarely needed for most common day-to-day tasks.

See the "get url" and "post" commands.

For example, all you need to use native LC for what you've shown in this thread for curl is:

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get url "ipinfo.io"

Didn't work, in that it returned nothing, and I didn't get anything when I added

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get url "ipinfo.io"; wait 5 seconds with messages; put it

without the wait with messages, I got "error URL is currently loading"

I am pretty familiar with the get command (although I usually just directly 'put' whatever I need). I'm not posting anything in the upwards direction, although I am not that familiar with post (will look into it to see if it is of some use in this case).

In this case, though, it doesn't seem to be as workable as curl. At least, not with what I am looking to do.

Checked 'post', as I assumed it was upwards direction specific.

Did you check that get works for you in this instance? It sure doesn't here.

[jacque]

For example, all you need to use native LC for what you've shown in this thread for curl is:

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get url "ipinfo.io"

Should this work on Mac OS X? Maybe the url needs a more specific path?
Edit: The result is "invalid URL".

[FourthWorld]

My bad: my example didn't include a real url.

Sockets can be used with many protocols, so libURL requires us to use a full URL which of course includes the service specifier up front:

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get url "http://ipinfo.io"

[bogs]

Richard, I am going to ask you again if you looked at the return when adding the "http" or "https". Please compare that return to what you see in my OP.

I suppose I *could* scrape that and find what I need, but I still don't see how that is better.

[jacque]

I suppose I *could* scrape that and find what I need, but I still don't see how that is better.

The info you want isn't in there. Instead it returns the front page of an actual web site at URL "http://infoIP.io".

I tried using "localhost" and variations but I'm still missing something. I'm pretty sure it's possible, I just can't find the right combination.