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How do you read text from a website in LabWindows CVI?

I'm trying to read a simple text string from a website into my LabWindows CVI program. I've looked everywhere but can't find an example of using a simple HTTP GET request.

Does anyone know if this can be accomplished in LabWindows?

Here's the website text I'm trying to read: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/wwv.txt

Solution

  • Got it. LabWindows allows this kind of functionality through Telnet services.

    First you do a "InetTelnetOpen" to open the connection.
    Then you do "InetTelnetWrite" and write the "GET ..." message.
    Then you do "InetTelnetReadUntil" and read until the string "/html>" to get all the site's text.

    LabWindows truly is an awful, poorly documented language.