<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <!--Rendered using the Haskell Html Library v0.2--> <HTML ><HEAD ><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8" ><TITLE >Text.HTML.Download</TITLE ><LINK HREF="haddock.css" REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" ><SCRIPT SRC="haddock-util.js" TYPE="text/javascript" ></SCRIPT ><SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" >window.onload = function () {setSynopsis("mini_Text-HTML-Download.html")};</SCRIPT ></HEAD ><BODY ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="topbar" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD ><IMG SRC="haskell_icon.gif" WIDTH="16" HEIGHT="16" ALT=" " ></TD ><TD CLASS="title" >tagsoup-0.6: Parsing and extracting information from (possibly malformed) HTML documents</TD ><TD CLASS="topbut" ><A HREF="index.html" >Contents</A ></TD ><TD CLASS="topbut" ><A HREF="doc-index.html" >Index</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="modulebar" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD ><FONT SIZE="6" >Text.HTML.Download</FONT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="right" ><TABLE CLASS="narrow" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="infohead" >Portability</TD ><TD CLASS="infoval" >portable</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="infohead" >Stability</TD ><TD CLASS="infoval" >unstable</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="infohead" >Maintainer</TD ><TD CLASS="infoval" >http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section1" >Description</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" ><P >This module simply downloads a page off the internet. It is very restricted, and it not intended for proper use. The primary purpose is to allow more interesting examples for the <A HREF="Data-Html-TagSoup.html" >Data.Html.TagSoup</A > module. </P ><P >The original version was by Alistair Bayley, with additional help from Daniel McAllansmith. It is taken from the Haskell-Cafe mailing list "Simple HTTP lib for Windows?", 18 Jan 2007. <A HREF="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/18443/" >http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/18443/</A > </P ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section1" >Synopsis</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="body" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3AopenURL" >openURL</A > :: <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3AopenItem" >openItem</A > :: <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section1" >Documentation</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:openURL" ><A NAME="v%3AopenURL" ></A ></A ><B >openURL</B > :: <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" ><P >This function opens a URL on the internet. Any <TT >http://</TT > prefix is ignored. </P ><PRE > openURL "www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell" </PRE ><P >Known Limitations: </P ><UL ><LI > Only HTTP on port 80 </LI ><LI > Outputs the HTTP Headers as well </LI ><LI > Does not work with all servers </LI ></UL ><P >It is hoped that a more reliable version of this function will be placed in a new HTTP library at some point! </P ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:openItem" ><A NAME="v%3AopenItem" ></A ></A ><B >openItem</B > :: <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" >Open a URL (if it starts with <TT >http://</TT >) or a file otherwise </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="botbar" >Produced by <A HREF="http://www.haskell.org/haddock/" >Haddock</A > version 2.5.0</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></BODY ></HTML >