am i going mad?

[browolf]

got a script that retrieves router stats. need to modify it for a dlink router.
attached file is file retrieved off router.

the old script reads the whole file into a string.

modded script refuses to do anything with said string. can't even echo it
even test script wont. dont understand whats going on /cry

routerpage="modemstatus.htm"

Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set router = fso.opentextfile("e:\dlink\" & routerpage, ForReading)

routerhtml=router.ReadAll

wscript.echo len(routerhtml)

wscript.echo routerhtml

produces the output 3064 from the len but thats it. please help

[webman]

For some reason, it seems to work if the first character of the HTML file isn't a space (which it is at the moment)

[browolf]

hmm thats very strange.

that could be a problem cos thats how it comes off the router using wget.
it doesnt seem to want to ltrim either....

[webman]

Have you tried opening the html file in notepad? I get the "This file is not a valid text file. It may be a binary file. Convert any NULL terminators to spaces and load anyway?" message so it must be the way it's either sent by the web server or the way wget wgot it.

[browolf]

it works for me ok in notepad. i can see the "space"
the only thing im doing different in this wget from the other working script(different router) is renaming the file because on the router its called
webcm?getpage=../html/status/modemstatus.htm which vbscript doesnt like either.

supposing its not really a space. any thoughts on how i can get rid of it?

i tried c:\>type modemstatus.htm > newmodemstatus.htm but it didnt make any difference.

[tom_newton]

Use perl & LWP::Simple? Better/easier than vbscript/forking AND its cross-platform,

[webman]

When I tested it, I could loop through a line at a time using Do Until router.AtEndOfStream ... router.readline and it was OK. I presume you're looking for specific information from this file, so you could take this approach and just search a line at a time.

[browolf]

i havent got time to learn perl

there's more than one thing in there im after so im using regular expressions to locate several rows of information in the whole file. this kind of thing works well with webpages and tables. i've got a suggestion of using mid off another forum to extract all the string except the "space" if i can't get another to work the other option i have is telnet to the router and get it that way.

[mac_shinobi]

check this out :

http://www.codingforums.com/archive/...p?t-30994.html

[browolf]

that seems a bit complicated. i already have a working method of extracting the data. im not really looking to change that. thx.

[webman]

The format of that file is screwing up the opening of it using scripting. Have you considered using AutoIt to create an automated telnet type app? Something similar to this perhaps.

[PiqueABoo]

The file does not begin with a space, it begins with 0x00 which is not ASCII text and is a string terminator in most languages.

If you can't persuade whatever not to put that on the front, can you sanitise the file before you read it e.g. with the sysinternals strings util:

strings -a -q modemstatus.htm > fixedstatus.htm

Fixedstatus.htm will definitely be ASCII.

[ChrisH]

Can you not get anything from SNMP? Recent updates to my bog standard Dlink APs has added that functionality. Might be worth checking out.

[ajbritton]

You could try using the Document Object Model (DOM) API to directly access the contents.

[PiqueABoo]

One byte to get rid of and: Rewrite in PERL, never mind your VBS go and read a JScript thread, rewrite to use SNMP, go look at DOM. You lot should become a development team at RM ;b