Re: New Application Project - French Dico

Hello Nikolaus,

On 2026-03-14 14:34:06 +0100 H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> Am 14.03.2026 um 12:33 schrieb Patrick CARDONA 
>> <[email protected]>:
> 
>> My questions:
>> - Does exist an in-purpose class/method to fetch the URL and get the 
>> query 
>> back as a string?
> 
> well, on Cocoa there is -[NSAttributedString 
> initWithURL:documentAttributes:] 
> and -[NSAttributedString 
> initWithURL:options:documentAttributes:error:] but I 
> don't know if it exists in GNUstep.
> 

Thank you to suggest.

>> - If not, is a NStask with 'wget' or 'curl' command and reading then 
>> the 
>> produced tempfile a good approach?
> 
> At least this is a good fallback if above fails. You can likely 
> capture 
> stdout of "wget -O -" or"curl -o -" from NSTask to circumvent using a 
> tempfile.

Finally, I chose a fallback with Surf browser (WebKit) from 
Suckless.org because the requested URL needs to execute Javascript on 
the client side.
Well, it is working as expected and the service too.

> 
> BR,
> Nikolaus
> 

Cheers,
Patrick

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