Reloading a webpage

Mikel30 · Mar 28, 2011, 05:37 PM

I'm trying to write an Applescript, but I'm not quire sure how to do it. Basically, there's a web page that I want to keep checking on. It's not live yet, and I want to find out when it's up.

The tricky part is that the webpage redirects if it isn't up yet, so I can't simply reload the page. I want the Applescript to go to the webpage, check to see if it got redirected somewhere else, and if so, load it again. So I need to check to see what page it's currently at, and that's what I can't figure out.

balamw · 06:04 PM

IIRC curl (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html) won't follow redirects unless you tell it to. It also seems like you can ask it to output how many redirects it was asked to follow in case it does.

EDIT: I just checked this on a site I have registered, but not yet set up hosting for. curl http://parkedsite.com gives no output, while curl -L http://parkedsite.com gives me the Network Solutions "Coming Soon" page.

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Mar 28, 2011, 05:37 PM	#1
Mikel30 macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2004	Reloading a webpage I'm trying to write an Applescript, but I'm not quire sure how to do it. Basically, there's a web page that I want to keep checking on. It's not live yet, and I want to find out when it's up. The tricky part is that the webpage redirects if it isn't up yet, so I can't simply reload the page. I want the Applescript to go to the webpage, check to see if it got redirected somewhere else, and if so, load it again. So I need to check to see what page it's currently at, and that's what I can't figure out.
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Mar 28, 2011, 05:56 PM	#2
balamw Demi-God (Moderator) Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New England, USA	IIRC curl (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html) won't follow redirects unless you tell it to. It also seems like you can ask it to output how many redirects it was asked to follow in case it does. EDIT: I just checked this on a site I have registered, but not yet set up hosting for. curl http://parkedsite.com gives no output, while curl -L http://parkedsite.com gives me the Network Solutions "Coming Soon" page. B __________________ MBA (13" 1.7 GHz 128GB), UMBP (15" SD 2.8 GHz), UMB (13" 2.4 GHz), iMac (17" Yonah), 32GB iPad 3 WiFi+LTE, 64 GB iPad WiFi, 32 GB iPhone 5, Airport Extreme Last edited by balamw; Mar 28, 2011 at 06:04 PM.
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