here is the URL (spans 2 lines) and it fails with a bad uri message
The message I get is URI::InvalidURIError: bad URI(is not URI?):
The same URI in a web page returns quote.csv, as expected
Any ideas? I am stumped
thanks in advance!
Joe
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Whenever I do web stuff I prefer using an external library. ie Mechanize
Here is what it'd look like with mechanize :
require 'Mechanize'
agent = Mechanize.new
file = agent.get('uri') #Returns a Mechanize::File object
file.save('filename')
You could also use blocks if you wanted.
That will save the file in the same directory as the script.
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I tried escaping the ^ and other symbols also but no luck
Joe
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Here it is escaped and it still fails....any ideas?
Joe
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Thanks Matma - that put me on the correct track. This works fine:
“http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s="+$symbol+"+^DJI+^GSPC+^IXIC+IWB+IWM+IWV+TMW+^VIX+^TV.N+&f=d1t1sl1c1%26e=csv”
thanks again
Joe
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You need to escape the carets (^) for Ruby to understand - URI library
is pretty strict about what it accepts. You will probably need to
escape all other funky chars, too.
-- Matma Rex
"Escape" as in "URL-escape". For example, ^ becomes %5E. You can use
the CGI.escape() method for this (you'll need to require 'cgi' first).
-- Matma Rex
2011/10/7 Joe Collins <joec_49@hotmail.com>:
I tried escaping the ^ and other symbols also but no luck
Not backslash-escape, URL-escape - with the percent signs. Read my
previous post again - you can use CGI.escape() for this. Also read
this: Percent-encoding - Wikipedia
-- Matma Rex
2011/10/7 Joe Collins <joec_49@hotmail.com>:
Here it is escaped and it still fails....any ideas?