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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:18:00 -0600 (CST)
From: Rich Catlett <rich@more.net>
To: taglibs-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: taglib for submission
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I looked at that, and unfortunately I'm looking for just enough
functionality that your tag set does not work (I want to set a timeout on 
the connection). I am writeing an implementation of the HttpURLConnection
class to do this, and that will take care of the LGPL problem.

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Rich Catlett        rich@more.net

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, James Strachan wrote:

> From: "Rich Catlett" <rich@more.net>
> > I work with a committer, and I have a taglib that I would like to commit
> > to the Apache project.  First off the taglib is called scrape.  It makes
> > an http connection to a named site and then using regular expressions it
> > grabs a portion and displays it in the users own jsp page.
> 
> To get around the licence problems with the HTTPClient you're using in
> scrape, would it make sense to resuse the http tag library I just submitted
> (assuming it gets accepted)? Though I haven't added any caching to the http
> tag library yet but that would be a logical next step.
> 
> The 2 tag libraries could work together as follows (guessing the syntax of
> scrape and assuming that <scrape:scrape> is a BodyTag):-
> 
> <scrape:scrape pattern="xxx">
>     <http:request url="http://www.foo.com/bar" action="GET"/>
> </scrape:scrape>
> 
> i.e. scrape just scrapes its body content and other tags (such as in the
> http or jdbc taglibs) generate the body content.
> 
> Another alternative would be to integrate scrape into Pierre's iotransformer
> tag library.
> 
> <James/>
> 
> 
> James Strachan
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> email: james@metastuff.com
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