JackKort — 21-Jun-2018/10:19:21-7:00
Hello, in REBOL2 I knew how to create a PORT spec with scheme 'https, host, path, and my username/password credentials, then get my data by probing the port state/inbuffer.
But now that REBOL2 won't support https, I wanted to try this in Red. But seems Red does not use ports the same way? At least I do not find the "open" command.
And of course a read attempt just returns "Authorization Header not provided".
I would appreciate any links to documentation on how to do the equivalent in Red.
Many thanks! -Jack
iArnold — 21-Jun-2018/13:38:07-7:00
Sorry Jack!
There is no support for I/O currently in Red so your attempt was in vain. Support is planned for in future releases. I will not go into detail but read the blogposts on the red-lang homepage, pay special attention to the dates of the articles and then estimate a releasedate for subsequential releases and decide if you are willing to invest the time waiting for it or invest the time to help creating a solution yourself.
Graham — 8-Jul-2018/16:30:09-7:00
Just use rebol3 which supports all of this.
JackKort — 23-Aug-2018/12:43:20-7:00
Thank you both! Graham, honestly, the REBOL 3 landscape confuses me. Would you recommend Atronix, or perhaps some other variant?
Best Regards,
-Jack
Steven White — 23-Aug-2018/13:30:08-7:00
I also thought that R2 does not support https, but I tried it and am at this very moment running an automated process to monitor some web site that uses https. I do it like this:
JDATA: read https://scrape.pastebin.com/api_scraping.php?limit=100
I can't help beyond that because I really don't understand how any of all this works.
JackKOrt — 24-Aug-2018/9:51:15-7:00
Hi Steven, I didn't state that well - R2 does support https, but does NOT work w/ sites that have imposed newer versions of TLS. Too bad R2 can't be updated....