Re: Invoking a request from within an after filter

Yuval Krymolowski wrote:

>  In the after filter of a request, I create a new request
>  and issue it using HTLoad.
> 
>  It doesn't work, although the HTLoad returns '1'.
>  The same code worked when I just issued the requests one after the
>  other. It runs on NT.

You should be able to start new requests from within filters without
problems. Could it be that you exit the event loop or some sort?
 
>  Actually, one requests gets the HEAD (for last access date) and the other
>  gets the HTML data through the HTML parser.
>  Could some one please send a small example of such request nesting, or
>  a simpler way of getting HEAD+parsed HTML ?

On any request, the header information is stored in the response object
and also for a longer time in the anchor object. You can see how to get
the headers in

	http://www.w3.org/Library/Examples/getheaders.c

and how to set up the HTML parser in the sample apps at

	http://www.w3.org/Library/Examples/#HTML

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Received on Wednesday, 23 June 1999 10:53:17 UTC