GetURL

Purpose

Connects to a specified web address and returns the page as a string.

This is a quick way to:

• return variable data from web pages

• build screen-scraping tools

• insert web data into FirstClass

In combination with the fcHTML body type, GetURL can be used to fill FirstClass documents and messages with data from the web.

Syntax

GetURL (URLString [, Timeout])

URLString	The URL as a string. The port defaults to 80 if not specified in the URL.
Timeout	The time (in seconds) to wait for the connection to the web address. The timeout defaults to 10 seconds if not specified.

Example

Debug GetURL ("http://www.firstclass.com")