No HTTP access through Illustrator?

Question

So is there no way to access HTTP through Illustrator scripting?  I've tried the one trick I found searching the forums of copying over webaccesslib.dll/netio.dll/coretypes.dll from Bridge but can't get it to work (I just get an 'Error 53: I/O error' when I try to load webaccesslib with the ExternalObject) and according to the Javascript toolkit docs Illustrator doesn't support the Socket object so I can't even write it myself.
I need to make a request to a URL to pull in some custom information but so far am at a loss as to how else to do this.

Answer 1

here is a sample script, getting web contents through bridgeTalk.
//bridgesoc_sample.jsx
var cnnct = new Socket;
    if (cnnct.open("chuwa.iobb.net:80", "binary")) {
        cnnct.write("GET /tech/images/sample1-thumb-240x125.jpg HTTP/1.0\n"
                        + "Host: chuwa.iobb.net\n"
                        + "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; ja)\n"
                        + "Connection: close\n\n");
        var rply = cnnct.read(999999);
        cnnct.close();
    f =new File("/test.jpg");
    if(f.open('W')){
        f.encoding = "BINARY";
        f.write(rply);
        f.close()
        }</p>
//main.jsx
var bt = new BridgeTalk();
bt.target = "bridge";
bt.body = uneval (getResource)+"()";
bt.onError = function (){
     alert ('Error has occured.');
bt.send();
function getResource(){
    var a = new File('/bridgesoc_sample.jsx');
    if (a.open("r")){
        cd = a.read();
        a.close();
        eval(cd);
Its work fine.
You don't want through bridge, use custom external object to make your own.