TCPSocket

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johnnyfreak

(Posted 2008) [#1]

How can i get a data stream from a socket?

s:tSocket = createTCPSocket()
ip=hostip("www.ansa.it")
if connectsocket(s, ip, 80) print "connected"
closeSocket(s)

in this way i should be connnected to ansa.it (correct me if not). And now? if i want to get the page and simply put the html to console, how can i?

(sorry if there's english mistakes)

Dreamora

(Posted 2008) [#2]

don't use it if you have no experience with sockets and don't need to go that low level.

you can simply use http::ansa.it and the stream commands for example

johnnyfreak

(Posted 2008) [#3]

O_O

Wow! i didn't know bmax was so "high level"...

I searched for TCPSocket because i was used to Java where there's methods to get streams directly from a socket.

i'm happy to have bought BMax :P

Dreamora

(Posted 2008) [#4]

Yes, BM has some nice higher level wrapping.
you can even load images from http:: for example. (incbin:: is a different stream type for incbined data)

xlsior

(Posted 2008) [#5]

you can even load images from http:: for example. (incbin:: is a different stream type for incbined data)

With one small caveat: The loadimage command needs the stream to be seekable (images aren't loaded entirely linearly) so you'd need to cache it locally first, like this:

Local pic:TImage=LoadImage(LoadBank("http::www.blitzbasic.com/img/brllogo-thin.png"))

This will download the image from the web into a seekable memory bank, and loadimage will pull pull it from there.