## These are tests that require socket and internet functionality, and ## a working Internet connection. ## We attempt to test for those. if(.Platform$OS.type == "unix" && is.null(nsl("cran.r-project.org"))) q() ## check graceful failure: try(url("http://foo.bar", "r")) if(.Platform$OS.type == "windows") try(url("http://foo.bar", "r", method = "wininet")) ## everything from here on is directly over sockets if(!capabilities("sockets")) stop("no socket capabilities") # do the same thing via sockets (cut-down httpclient) httpget <- function (url, port = 80) { urlel <- strsplit(url, "/")[[1]] if (urlel[1] != "http:") stop("Not an http:// URL") host <- urlel[3] rurl <- paste(c("", urlel[-(1:3)]), collapse = "/") a <- make.socket(host, port = port) on.exit(close.socket(a)) headreq <- paste("HEAD", rurl, "HTTP/1.0\r\nConnection: Keep-Alive\r\nAccept: text/plain\r\n\r\n") write.socket(a, headreq) head <- read.socket(a, maxlen = 8000) b <- strsplit(head, "\n")[[1]] if (length(grep("200 OK", b[1])) == 0) stop(b[1]) len <- as.numeric(strsplit(grep("Content-Length", b, value = TRUE), ":")[[1]][2]) getreq <- paste("GET", rurl, "HTTP/1.0\r\nConnection: Keep-Alive\r\nAccept: text/plain\r\n\r\n") write.socket(a, getreq) junk <- read.socket(a, maxlen = nchar(head)) data <- "" b <- strsplit(c(head, junk), "\n") nn <- length(b[[1]]) if (length(b[[2]]) > nn) data <- paste(b[[2]][-(1:nn)], collapse = "\n") while (nchar(data) < len) { data <- paste(data, read.socket(a, maxlen = len - nchar(data)), sep = "") } strsplit(data, "\n")[[1]] } if(nzchar(Sys.getenv("http_proxy")) || nzchar(Sys.getenv("HTTP_PROXY"))) { cat("http proxy is set, so skip test of http over sockets\n") } else { f <- httpget("http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/datasets/csb/ch11b.dat") str(f) stopifnot(length(f) == 100L) }