HTTP request in BASIC

Dear all

Is it possible to do an http request in BASIC. The idea is to build a client interface in BASIC for RiscOS to access web services.

Thank you for your help.

regards

Yes.

But, using the Socket SWIs in Basic is somewhat fiddly and time consuming but they are documented with the !StrongHelp application)

There are a couple of options to simplify the task:-

a) On a 26 bit computer, the simplest is to use the EasySockets module from Justin Fletcher. A web page can be fetched in half a dozen lines of code. The module comes with example code. However, EasySockets will not work on a 32 bit computer – like the Raspberry Pi without using using Aemulor. Although that combination works well

b) Use the Wget module. (This is a RISCOS port of the popular Linux code).

You can also use the URL_Fetcher module and AcornHTTP module. One issue with this is that it is limited to HTTP and does not support HTTPS (unless there is an HTTP fetcher module somewhere which I am not aware of).

It is quite a nice system. See documentation