127 char limit in get-url

[nigelbrown]

I'm porting some amazon webservices code from their perl examples to newlisp (of course) and to retrieve the info from amazon a 206 char url is generated (below is the string formed from newlisp with my SubscriptionId X'ed out)

viz:

> (length "http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&Operation=ItemLookup&SubscriptionId=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&ItemId=052164481X&MerchantId=All&ResponseGroup=OfferFull&OfferPage=1&Condition=All">http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml? ... dition=All">http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&Operation=ItemLookup&SubscriptionId=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&ItemId=052164481X&MerchantId=All&ResponseGroup=OfferFull&OfferPage=1&Condition=All")

206

trying to get url gives:

> (get-url "http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&Operation=ItemLookup&SubscriptionId=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&ItemId=052164481X&MerchantId=All&ResponseGroup=OfferFull&OfferPage=1&Condition=All">http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml? ... dition=All">http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&Operation=ItemLookup&SubscriptionId=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&ItemId=052164481X&MerchantId=All&ResponseGroup=OfferFull&OfferPage=1&Condition=All")

"ERR: bad formed URL"

>

I see in nl-web.c the code:

int parseUrl(char* url, char* host, int* port, char* path)

{

char* colonPtr;

char* slashPtr;

int len;



/* trim trailing whitespace like '/r/n' from url */

if((len = strlen(url)) > 127) return(FALSE);

while(*(url + len) <= ' ' && len > 0)

   {

   *(url + len) = 0;

   len--;

   }

...

and

/* parse URL for parameters */

if(parseUrl(url, host, &port, path) == FALSE)

   return(stuffString(ERROR_BAD_URL));

...

so I suspect the long url is the problem.

I've not looked further into what would be required to accept longer url's but could this be done easily (in which case I could try coding)? Or would need some string buffer structures etc or different system calls?



Regards

Nigel

[Lutz]

Yes, there is a limitation of 127 chars per URL+query, I will post a corrected version later today.



Lutz

[nigelbrown]

Thanks Lutz and Happy New Year (to all).

I'll post some code when I've  something useful.

It will hopefully be a cgi or tk/tcl interfaced program to maintain a personal library "database" with ISBN's being converted to full entries.

Regards

Nigel