[Ghoser777]

I'm using NSURL to fecth html data off of NWS. One of the problems I'm running into is that I need to find out when NSURL is doing the right thing and following redirects, and what page I'm being redirected to. I've had no success in doing this so far. Does anyone know?

Thanks,
Matt Fahrenbacher

[Ghoser777]

One work around I've found is to simply use NSTask and curl. But now I have new problem!

When you do a search on weather.com (and most weather sites), sometimes you'll be taken to a page with multiple hits, or in the case of a unique hit, straight to the cities weather page.

There are two Peoria's in the weather.com database, so doing this:

curl "http://www.weather.com/search/search?where=Peoria"

works fine.

There is only one Champaign, but doing this:

url "http://www.weather.com/search/search?where=Champaign"

prints nothing to the screen. I played with the -F flag a little bit, but didn't get anywhere.

Does anyone see what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Matt Fahrenbacher

[Wevah]

Check the output for this:

curl -I 'http://www.weather.com/search/search?where=Peoria'

This will show you the headers sent by the server; note the "Location:" header.

[Ghoser777]

Originally posted by Wevah:
Check the output for this:

curl -I 'http://www.weather.com/search/search?where=Peoria'

This will show you the headers sent by the server; note the "Location:" header.

That was the trick I figured out yesterday, thanks!

Matt Fahrenbacher

[IamBob]

Hey Matt...

You might want to check out CURLHandle if you haven't already.

It seems like it might be a little more flexible/faster/whatever than using NSTask and all that.