[squeak-dev] Re: Fetch zip file from web, unzip, save constituent parts?

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Fri Jun 17 01:03:13 UTC 2016


> On 16-06-2016, at 5:41 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> On 16-06-2016, at 5:22 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> What I need to do is access a zip file on a server, download it 
> 
> OK, that bit I can now do with “http://foo.com/thingy.zip' asUrl retrieveContents, which even makes sense.

Except that any attempt to get a zip file from github, for example, fails because of some problem with unknown protocol. THat’s even after discovering that github wants 'https://github.com/foo/bar/master/thing.zip?raw=true' in order to actually see the data and not the damn page.

tim
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