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----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel Fischer Sent: 04/01/11 02:04 PM To: beginners@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Network.HTTP basics

On Friday 01 April 2011 21:42:19, Barbara Shirtcliff wrote:

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Hi, this is small, but this is the beginners list, so here goes:

I can see how to use HTTP to request a page. for example, this works:

Prelude Network.HTTP> let respgoogle = simpleHTTP $ getRequest "http://google.com" Prelude Network.HTTP> respgoogle Right HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://www.google.com/ Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:31:25 GMT Expires: Sun, 01 May 2011 17:31:25 GMT Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000 Server: gws Content-Length: 219 X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Connection: close

that looks really nice, but hey, what if I want to see what's in the content? It isn't immediately clear to me from the documentation at http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/HTTP/4000.1.1/doc/html/Netw ork-HTTP.html .

stuff = do  answer <- respgoogle  case answer of  Left connErr -> putStrLn "Got a connection error:" >> print connErr  Right result -> do  let goodies = rspBody result  putStrLn goodies -- or do something sensible

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In the end, I'll be working with JSON, here, but I need to know how to get to it, and the examples in the documentation don't work (i.e. don't appear to be up to date). I'm not very experienced with Haskell, so, it's pretty opaque.

Thanks, Bar