[Haskell-beginners] Fetching a URI

aditya siram aditya.siram at gmail.com
Sun Apr 5 23:46:04 EDT 2009


At first I got the same error but when I installed HTTP-4000.0.5 using Cabal
your code worked.

hth,
deech

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Adam Keys <adamkkeys at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to write a wrapper for a REST service. However, I find myself
> stumped by the simplest part: merely performing a GET on a URI.
>
> I'm using the HTTP Cabal package. It specifies an example like so:
>
>  simpleHTTP (getRequest "http://www.haskell.org/") >>= fmap (take 100) .
>> getResponseBody
>>
>
>
> However, it seems I'm either importing the library incorrectly or there is
> a discrepancy between the documentation and the library. I can't seem to
> call getRequest.
>
>  :) ghc-pkg list
>> ...
>> /Users/adamkeys/.ghc/i386-darwin-6.8.2/package.conf:
>>    Cabal-1.6.0.1, HTTP-3001.1.3, HTTP-4000.0.4, Shellac-0.9.5,
>> ...
>>
>> GHCi, version 6.8.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
>> Loading package base ... linking ... done.
>> Prelude> import Network.HTTP
>> Prelude Network.HTTP> :type getRequest
>>
>> <interactive>:1:0: Not in scope: `getRequest'
>>
>
> Am I missing something obvious here?
>
> --
> ~akk
>
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