Getting data from SQL database

Question

Hi
I am stil trying to get some basic information stored in a database table on my SQL Server.
I can do this by embedding an Applescript do carry out the shell command 'curl' as below:
myFullScriptString = "do shell script \"curl -0  localhost/asset.php?asset_id="+assetID+"\"";
myForceError = app.doScript(myFullScriptString, ScriptLanguage.APPLESCRIPT_LANGUAGE);
return(myForceError);
but I dont want to be limited to OSX.
Is there a way this can be put into a native socket comment using a structure as below?
reply = "";
conn = new Socket();
conn.open("192.168.91.184:8888");
conn.write(" GET /myfile.php?" + variousVariable + " HTTP/1.0\n\n");
reply = conn.read(999999);
conn.close;
Cheers
Roy

Answer 1

Sigh...
I'm sorry, Roy, I really thought that the example in the JS Tools Guide told you how to seperate the actual response from the server's headers. But it doesn't!
Anyhow, RFC2616 tells us:
6 Response
   After receiving and interpreting a request message, a server responds
   with an HTTP response message.
       Response      = Status-Line               ; Section 6.1
                       *(( general-header        ; Section 4.5
                        | response-header        ; Section 6.2
                        | entity-header ) CRLF)  ; Section 7.1
                       CRLF
                       [ message-body ]          ; Section 7.2
So, that means the message body is seperated by two CRLF pairs. Except that because of API magic each CRLF turns into a single \n. So you want to look for \n\n.
So, you should be able to seperate it like this:
body = reply.substr(reply.indexOf("\n\n")+2);