[Newbies] String asURI contentStream - troubles

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Petr Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to get stream from general (user entered) URI.
> 
> 1) 'file:///Users/pf/Documents' asURI contentStream - this works 
> (instance of StandardFileStream)
> 
> 2) 'http://www.seznam.cz/' asURI contentStream - error 
> (MessageNotUnderstood: HTTPClient class>>contentStreamForURI:)
> 
> I need one way (method) for all types of URIs (http, file, ftp...).
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks, pf

Hi!
I'm quite new to Squeak/Smalltalk (and totally fresh to this list), 
so I might be wrong.

Maybe this is what you want:

'theURLString' asUrl retrieveContents contentStream