I haven't been using HttpClient, but I've been fetching documents  
using something like

'http://www.foo.com' asUrl retrieveContents

which gets you an instance of MimeDocument.  I don't know if that  
helps you.

On Dec 28, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Nevin Pratt wrote:

> Bob Courchaine wrote:
>
>> I didn't dig very far but it seems Firefox's issue is that doesn't  
>> know
>> what to do w/ a ".dll" file.
>>
>> I downloaded the response, changed the extension to .xml and Firefox
>> opened it formatted as XML, complaining, "This XML file does not  
>> appear
>> to have any style information associated with it. The document  
>> tree is
>> shown below."
>>
>> Just for fun, I added a prolog declaring the document as XML (<?xml
>> version = "1.0"?>). Then I changed the extension back to .dll and  
>> tried
>> to Open the File in Firefox. It still didn't know how to handle it,
>> asking to download it again.
>>
>
> Actually, I don't care to open the file in Firefox, or any other  
> browser, and I don't care about files.
> I just want to hit that URL in Squeak, and get the response into  
> Squeak.
>
> If you put the URL in Firefox, it is correct that Firefox thinks it  
> is downloading a file.  But the file that it downloads is a text  
> file that contains the response.
>
> I want to retrieve that response, via the URL, totally inside of  
> Squeak, without dealing with files.  It's that simple.
>
> Or so I would think.
>
> Nevin
>
>