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Re: urlread
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: urlread |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:43:53 -0400 |
On 9-Oct-2007, Alexander Barth wrote:
| GAIL wrote:
| > The urlread function doesn't do anything for me; it just returns the empty
string, as follows:
| >
| > octave> urlread ("ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README");
| > ans =
| >
| >
| > I use octave-2.9.14. What am I doing wrong?
| >
| Which
|
| Do you have curl (library and in development package) installed?
| They are named libcurl3 and libcurl3-dev in Ubuntu/Debian and curl and
curl-devel in Fedora.
| The configure script should tell you if curl was found.
|
| (You didn't specify the operating system you are using and from where you got
octave. I assumed that
| you compiled from source under Linux).
Perhaps instead of
#if defined (HAVE_CURL)
[...]
#else
retval(2) = "urlread: not available in this version of Octave";
retval(1) = 0;
retval(0) = "";
#endif
in urlread, we should have
#if defined (HAVE_CURL)
[...]
#else
error ("urlread: not available in this version of Octave");
#endif
I think that would be more consistent with what happens for other
functions which are not available due to missing libraries or OS
features.
jwe
- urlread, GAIL, 2007/10/09
- Re: urlread, Alexander Barth, 2007/10/09
- Re: urlread,
John W. Eaton <=
Re: urlread, GAIL, 2007/10/09