HTTP: request

I installed wet this morning, and in the readme there are three sites provided for finding your location co-ordinates. These site url's are underlined, and I clicked on the streetmap.co.uk one and got a system requester asking;

Quote:Can anyone shed any light on the above. I know I have had problems getting OpenURL to work correctly, so maybe it is related to that, or do I need to download a HTTP.device from somewhere.

Anyway I thought somebody here would know more than I, so thanks for your help in advance.

@Swoop

Sounds like its using the HTTP: handler...

http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?fun ... work/misc/httphandler.lha

@Swoop

Hi peter
As your near me these should be close enough
Latitude = 51 - 19 - 46 - N
longitude = 0 - 42 - 22 - W

ICAO = EGLF

which should give you Farnborough.

Hope that helps

Andy

@Swoop

Quote:

Really? There shouldn't be any URLs showing as links in the readme or the guide. If you double-click on them AmigaGuide might have a go at opening them though (probably with little success, even if http-handler and html.datatype is present)

If there really are links there let me know exactly where and I'll fix them.

@Chris

In the "Installation and Initial Setup" node. I click on them and Multiview just says "Loading...", but doesn't do anything else.

@Chris

In the wet.guide on the Installation page the three sites provided to get the location co-ordinates from are underlined. Whether this is just a feature of MultiView, or your script I don't know.

Anyway, I have installed HTTP handler, and I now get the same reponse as valiant. Maybe I need to configure HTTP handler in some way.

OK, the underlining is mine, but it is only underlining, there is no link there.

What you are seeing is an AmigaGuide "feature", where double-clicking on a word will open a node of that name. External links work as well, so if I (for some reason) have t:usb.log/main in my text, double-clicking on it will open t:usb.log and show the "main" node.

With the URLs, AmigaGuide attempts to read the files but gives up ("Loading" remaining in the titlebar is a bug). I see from the debug log that it is trying to lock the file before it opens it, which http-handler doesn't support.

Even if it did it wouldn't work, as AmigaGuide requires that external links end in a node name (eg /main).

I'll change these to command buttons using openurl to avoid future confusion!

Chris