[Slogger] Trouble With Variable "$url"

[mook at themook.net]

Hi again!

That javascript produced two identical alert boxes, both with the 
unmodified URL of the page I was on - I tinkered a little bit (I 
don't actually know javascript, but found some example scripts 
here and there) and came up with:

var a = sloggerGetVar("url");
alert(a);
a = a.replace(new RegExp(/:/), "_");
alert(a);
sloggerSetVar("url",a);

When I "test" this code (within Slogger's pane) it opens an alert 
box with the unmodified URL, then opens a second alert box 
with the ":" changed to a "_" ... the problem is, if I change the ":" 
in that code to a "?", no alert boxes show at all, it's as if the code 
doesn't fire.  Maybe the question mark "?" is protected in 
javascript.

Anyway, thanks a bunch for trying to help me with this, I'm going 
to keep tinkering and see if I can figure this out.  Feel free to 
throw any bones my way if you think of anything else  : D

By the way, I never actually mentioned in any of my posts, it 
was somewhat implied - but I think Slogger is a fantastic 
extension.  It saved me literally hours and hours of laborious 
fiddling by automating site captures so easily.  Nice job!

Mook
http://www.themook.net



On 16 Feb 2006 at 16:29, Ken Schutte wrote:
> For now, to at least get that information stored, you could make a log 
> file that maps filename to the url.  for example, set the saved page to 
> be (like the default):
> $year-$month-$day_$hour-$minute-$second-$millisecond.$typeext
> and create log file with the content of:
> $year-$month-$day_$hour-$minute-$second-$millisecond.$typeext $url
> 
> 
> Or you can try entering something like this in the "Custom script" tab 
> (I haven't tried this...),
> 
> var a = sloggerGetVar("url");
> alert(a);
> a.replace(/\:/g, "_");
> a.replace(/\?/g, "_");
> a.replace(/\//g, "_");
> alert(a);
> sloggerSetVar("url",a);
> 
> the alert() lines will let you know if it's running and if the character 
> replacement works.  Remove them if it does.
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> 
> mook at themook.net wrote:
> > Hi Ken,
> > 
> > Thanks for the quick turnaround  : )
> > 
> > The pages I have archived in the past were saved along the 
> > lines of:
> > 
> > Original Remote Site
> > http://www.site.com/article.html?id=001
> > http://www.site.com/article.html?id=002
> > http://www.site.com/article.html?id=003
> > 
> > Local Files
> > http _www.site.com_article.html id=001.html
> > http _www.site.com_article.html id=002.html
> > http _www.site.com_article.html id=003.html
> > 
> > Local Directories
> > http _www.site.com__article.html id=001_files
> > http _www.site.com__article.html id=002_files
> > http _www.site.com__article.html id=003_files
> > 
> > It looks like "/" became "_", and "?" became " ", etc.  I'm afraid I 
> > have no idea how to recreate that with a custom javascript 
> > though - I have just enough knowledge to break things, but not 
> > enough to actually be competent  : D
> > 
> > The part of the URL I'm really trying to retain is the "id=00X" 
> > part - without that I have no idea what the article actually is (I 
> > have a spreadsheet that lists the names of the articles and their 
> > corresponding numbers).  If I archive only based on a time-date 
> > stamp, it leaves me no way of knowing which article a particular 
> > file refers to. Is there another variable I might be able to use for 
> > that?  (I've tried "$filename" and "$path" with no luck).
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Mook
> > http://www.themook.net
> > 
> > On 16 Feb 2006 at 15:08, Ken Schutte wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I believe the problem is that it's generating invalid filenames.  The 
> >>$url variable holds the full url, which could be 
> >>"http://www.asdf.com/adsf?a=1;b=2" or something.  From saved pages in 
> >>the past, what would the final filename be for something like this?  Did 
> >>it escape some characters or just remove them?
> >>
> >>Some of the old Slogger code used to have a copy of some of Mozilla's 
> >>code for saving pages.  In newer Slogger, some of these functions were 
> >>implemented differently, but I can try to find this part that cleaned up 
> >>the filename and put it back in there.
> >>
> >>In the meantime, it might be possible in the current version if you 
> >>change $url variable in a custom javascript, although it's a bit 
> >>complicated... somthing like:
> >>
> >>var a = sloggerGetVar("url");
> >>// modify a, replacing bad chars
> >>sloggerSetVar("url",a);
> >>
> >>Ken
> > 
> > 
> > 
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