[Newbies] Building the equivalent of wget in Squeak

[Benjamin Schroeder]

Hi Andy,

> I would like to create a simple means of getting the contents of a  
> web page, in the same way that wget works.  What I hoped to do was  
> something like:
>
> wget url: 'http://...' show.
>
> I found a few classes e.g. Httpurl and also the asUrl method of the  
> string class, but I can't quite work out how to put it all  
> together.  As it seems like a simple way to start learning Squeak,  
> I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction.

You can use something like

	(HTTPClient httpGet: 'www.google.com') contents

to get the text of a web page. Just using

	HTTPClient httpGet: 'www.google.com'

gives you a "stream" over the page's text.

You can browse HTTPClient's class side to see how the method works  
and start digging deeper.

Hope this helps,
Benjamin Schroeder