Short: An intelligent plugin for YAM's URL-grabber. Author: torchia@windsor.igs.net (Ralph Torchia) Uploader: torchia@windsor.igs.net (Ralph Torchia) Version: 2.0 Type: comm/mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What is Hurl? ------------- Hurl is a plugin for YAM 2.0 that extends the capabilities of YAM's built-in URL grabber. Whenever a URL is double-clicked within YAM, Hurl will either launch your web browser or save the URL to a browser's hotlist/bookmark. Hurl is able to determine if your system is online and if a web browser is available. If not Hurl will save the selected URL to the assigned hotlists. Hurl can even allow the user to select what actions to perform (saving versus going online), when a network connection is not available. This software is what-you-want-ware :-). This means you should send the author, Ralph Torchia, whatever you want (i.e. email, postcard, gift) :-). Requirements ------------ · YAM v2.0 · Miami · Any, or all, of the web browsers IBrowse, Voyager, and A-Web · OpenURL library · WBStart library · ReqTools library Distribution ------------ Hurl is Copyright ©1998 by Ralph Torchia. This software is NOT public domain. The author gives permission for this software to be freely distributed providing that no commercial gain is made from its distribution, and no modification is made to the original distribution. Organisations or people wishing to include Hurl on a coverdisk or CD-ROM should contact me first. This excludes the Aminet CD-ROM collections. Disclaimer ---------- This software is provided "as-is" and the author accepts no responsibility for damage and/or loss of data/equipment resulting from the use of this software. Installation ------------ Please use the provided Installation script to install Hurl. If you prefer to install Hurl manually then: 1) Copy Hurl to "YAM:Rexx/" 2) In YAM's Config->Arexx, choose "When Double-Clicking on URL" and set options as follows: Filetype = AmigaDOS File = "YAM:Rexx/Hurl" OR "YAM:Rexx/Hurl AUTO" [] Open Console window {not selected} [] Wait for termination {not selected} Once Hurl is installed you need to have OpenURL properly configured. For each web browser set in OpenURL, Hurl will save grabbed URLs to that browsers hotlist/bookmark. If you do not want Hurl to work with certain browsers then do not set them in OpenURL prefs (or at least do not set a path to that browser). Usage ----- Hurl has two methods of functioning: · AUTO: In auto mode, Hurl will save all grabbed URLs to browser hotlists when the network is offline. If online, then the selected URL will be sent to a web browser for viewing. · Manual: In this mode, Hurl will bring up requesters, asking of the selected URL should be saved or if it should connect to the internet for viewing. When saving URLs, Hurl will bring up a requester containing a string requester with the full URL name selected. At this point you can leave it as is, or you can name your URL for saving to the hotlist. All URLs saved to the browser hotlists are saved under the group name YAM, therefore keeping them in one easy-to-find area. Author ------ Ralph Torchia, B.Sc., D.D.S. Mail : 3069 Suffolk Windsor, Ontario Canada N8R 1P1 Email : torchia@windsor.igs.net Homepage: http://www.windsor.igs.net/~torchia/ Thank-You --------- I would like to thank my two real beta testers: · Ljubomir Jankovic · Gary Robertson These two guys really put Hurl through the ringer finding bugs, and also contributed ideas for Hurl. I also would like to thank Marcel Beck for the excellent email program YAM. History ------- Versions previous to 2.0 refer to Hurl when it was written in ARexx. 2.0 - Initial release of all new Hurl. Future? ------- Currently Hurl is in a working manner that I am happy with. I have some ideas on how to increase Hurl's functionality, but this depends on how well Hurl is received by YAM users, and the feedback I receive. Current features for the future may include: · Change this text document to a AmigaGuide/HTML file. · Support for MiamiDeluxe and Genesis networking software. · Saving to Contact Manager · Improved URL saving speed of Hurl · Remove reqtools.library usage in favour of MUI · Ability to save to user-defined hotlist group. · Ability to inform running browsers of changed hotlist, after Hurl has added a URL. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 1188 550 53.7% 23-Nov-98 13:01:16 Hurl.info 900 474 47.3% 23-Nov-98 13:01:10 +Hurl.readme.info 1547 693 55.2% 23-Nov-98 13:00:18 +Install 1916 1060 44.6% 23-Nov-98 13:01:10 +Install Hurl.info 26300 8773 66.6% 23-Nov-98 13:52:14 +Hurl 1153 504 56.2% 25-Nov-98 09:14:02 +configyam4hurl.rexx 4533 2132 52.9% 25-Nov-98 10:15:44 +Hurl.readme -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 37537 14186 62.2% 26-Nov-98 01:02:58 7 files