Re: How do I read a regex address?

From: ToddAndMargo via curl-users <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:16:28 -0700

On 7/15/21 10:29 AM, Jeremy Nicoll via curl-users wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, at 17:47, ToddAndMargo via curl-users wrote:
>
>> Fedora 34
>> Xfce 4.14
>> curl-7.76.1-4.fc34.x86_64
>>
>> The below address works in a browser, but not curl.
>
> Does it really? Are you saying you type (or c&p)
>
> uupdump.net/known.php?q=regex:[2-9]\d{4}\

Oh yes: tested with both Firefox and Vivaldi. See
the second picture link below

>
> into the URL bar of, say FIrefox? Or are you executing a command
> from a terminal/console window as eg
>
> firefox.exe https://uupdump.net/known.php?q=regex:[2-9]\d{4}\
>
> In the latter case I would think that maybe (under some sort of
> linux shell) the regex part might get expanded before the command
> is passed to the browser.
>
>
> Moreover a URL like
>
> https://uupdump.net/known.php?q=regex:[2-9]\d{4}\.
>
> means that you're asking the php processor running on the
> server that's hosting the uupdump.net website, to run the
> php script that it has named known.php and pass to it the
> parameter "q=regex:[2-9]\d{4}\." (or maybe if you're using
> linux, pass to it a series of q=nnn values).
>
> Goodness only knows what that will do.
>
>
>> What I get back is the main page.
>
> That probably means it didn't work, and not knowing what
> you wanted, gave you the site's home page as decent
> default.
>
>> I need the "Dev Channel".
>
> If I browse the site's home page I see three links (which are
> architecture dependent) for things described as "Latest Dev
> Channel build", eg (for x64)
>
> https://uupdump.net/fetchupd.php?arch=amd64&ring=wif&build=latest
>
>
> which isn't even close to what you specified. Perhaps it would
> help if you explained where your URL came from.
>

You missed the dev channel button. My fault
for not telling you to look for it. Check the
following lines on the web page:

135: <a class="ui mini button" href="known.php?q=regex:[2-9]\d{4}\.">
136: <i class="search icon"></i>
137: Dev Channel
138: </a>

And a picture is worth a thousand words:
https://ibb.co/G2q6jyf

And this is the web page I want to read:
https://ibb.co/0hF8BZ4

I am trying to read this line:

146: <tr><td><i class="windows icon"></i><a
href="./selectlang.php?id=07f56947-34cb-4f28-aab5-764028e75f17">Cumulative
Update for Windows 11 (10.0.22000.65)
amd64</a></td><td>x64</td><td>2021-07-08 17:00:15
UTC</td><td><code>07f56947-34cb-4f28-aab5-764028e75f17</code></td></tr>

But I have to get the web page first before I
go nuts with regex. I program in Raku, so
Regex's are eloquent.



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Received on 2021-07-15