BrowseURL
BrowseURL [/Z ] urlStr
The BrowseURL operation opens the web browser or FTP browser on your computer and asks it to display a particular web page or to connect to an FTP server.
BrowseURL sets a variable named V_flag to zero if the operation succeeds and to nonzero if it fails. This, in conjunction with the /Z flag, can be used to allow procedures to continue to execute if an error occurs.
Parameters
urlStr specifies the web page or FTP server directory to be browsed. It is constructed of a naming scheme (such as "http://" or "ftp://"), a computer name (e.g., "www.wavemetrics.com" or "ftp.wavemetrics.com" or "38.170.234.2"), and a path (e.g., "/Test/TestFile1.txt"). See below for examples.
Flags
| /Z | Errors are not fatal. Will not abort procedure execution if the URL is bad or if the server is down. Your procedure can inspect the V_flag variable to see if the transfer succeeded. V_flag will be zero if it succeeded or nonzero if it failed. | |
| Syntactic errors, such as omitting the URL altogether or omitting quotes, are still fatal. | ||
Examples
// Browse a web page.
String url = "http://www.wavemetrics.com/News/index.html"
BrowseURL url
// Browse an FTP server.
String url = "ftp://ftp.wavemetrics.com/pub/test"
BrowseURL url