Hello Andreas,

Yes, it works fine. Thanks.

But now a request for another feature :-) AWS sometimes sends responses back
with 'HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect'. I see that 301 and 302 redirects are
handled automatically. Can you add support for a 307 redirect as well?

Jan.



On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Jan -
>
> This should be fixed in the latest version. All requests can now optionally
> take encoded URL strings. Give it a shot and let me know if it works for
> you.
>
> Hope this helps,
>  - Andreas
>
>
> On 8/9/2010 7:32 AM, Jan van de Sandt wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am busy updating the CloudforkAWS code to use WebClient as a the HTTP
>> client. CloudforkAWS provides a Smalltalk API to the Amazon AWS REST
>> services.
>>
>> WebClient works really well, the not so common HTTP methods like HEAD,
>> DELETE and PUT that the Simple Storage Service (S3) require work without
>> any problems :-)
>>
>> There is only one small problem. The WebClient>>httpGet:do: method
>> always encodes the urlString. In my situation the url is already encoded
>> and encoding it a second time leads to errors. In my code I encode the
>> individual query parameters names and values before I compose the
>> complete url. If you have a parameters like this I think it is the only
>> correct way:
>>
>> param1=you&me
>> param2=coming for dinner?
>>
>> So I added the following methods to WebClient:
>>
>> httpGet: urlString encoded: isEncoded do: aBlock
>> "GET the response from the given url"
>> | request |
>> self initializeFromUrl: urlString.
>> request := self requestWithUrl: urlString encoded: isEncoded.
>> request method: 'GET'.
>> userAgent ifNotNil:[request headerAt: 'User-Agent' put: userAgent].
>> aBlock value: request.
>> ^self sendRequest: request
>>
>> and:
>>
>> requestWithUrl: urlString encoded: isEncoded
>> "Create an return a new WebRequest initialized with the given url.
>> Subclasses can use this method to override the default request class."
>>
>> ^WebRequest new initializeFromUrl: urlString encoded: isEncoded.
>>
>> It would be great if these methods are incorporated in the base package.
>>
>> Jan.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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