Newbie question -- URL Access Error

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#1

Hi there,

I feel somewhat ashamed that I can’t seem to figure out what is wrong with this simple script – so, perhaps someone has an idea? I’m getting an error “URL Access Scripting got an error: Folder some object wasn’t found” and highlights the
download target_URL to file … line of my script. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

set the today_date to (“NP_” & (current date) & “.puz”)
set the target_URL to “http://www.networdcross.com/cgi-bin/nwserve/today.puz”
set the destination_file to ((path to desktop as string) & today_date)

tell application “URL Access Scripting”
download target_URL to file destination_file replacing yes
end tell

tell application “Finder” to open alias destination_file

#2

I would guess that the colons in the time are causing the error. Colons shouldn’t be used in file/folder names because they are used in paths.

#3

You should let the CGI work with the URL Access Scripting by getting the file first, then renaming the file once on the desktop.

change the destination variable to this:

set the destination_file to ((path to desktop as string) & “today.puz”)

Before naming the file with the date, follow the suggestion about the colons with the name.
set name of destination_file to today_date
Also set the today_date variable to a string, else the script will fail.

Here is my suggested script changes:

get the month of (the current date) --as integer
set aMonth to result
set the list_of_months to {January, February, March, April, ¬
	May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December}
repeat with i from 1 to 12
	if item i of the list_of_months is the aMonth then
		set the numeric_month to i
		exit repeat
	end if
end repeat
set aMonth to numeric_month as text
get day of (current date) as integer
set aDay to result
get year of (current date) as integer
set aYear to result
set aDate to aMonth & "/" & aDay & "/" & aYear as text
--display dialog aDate

set the today_date to ("NP_" & (aDate) & ".puz") as string
set the target_URL to "http://www.networdcross.com/cgi-bin/nwserve/today.puz"
set the destination_file to ((path to desktop as string) & "today.puz") as string
tell application "URL Access Scripting"
	download target_URL to file destination_file replacing yes
end tell

tell application "Finder" to set name of alias destination_file to today_date as text
--tell application "Finder" to open alias destination_file