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Internet Support

IGOR Pro provides facilities for interacting with the Internet. Manually or from an IGOR procedure you can:

• Download files and folders from an FTP site
• Upload files and folders to an FTP site
• Create directories on an FTP site
• Delete files and folders from an FTP site
• Get the contents of a web page from a web server
• Bring up a web page in the default web browser
• Generate an HTML file from an IGOR notebook window
• Percent-encode and percent-decode strings, such as URLs

FTP I/O is accomplished using the FTPDownload, FTPUpload, FTPDelete, and FTPCreateDirectory operations.

Fetching the contents of a web page is done using the FetchURL function.

Calling up a web page in the web browser is done using the BrowseURL operation.

Generating HTML from a notebook is done manually through the File->Save Notebook dialog or through the SaveNotebook operation.

Percent-encoding is done using the URLEncode function and percent-decoding is done using the URLDecode function.

A web-savvy programmer can use IGOR as a CGI-Bin Server. This is explained in Tech Notes PTN004 and PTN005 which are included with IGOR Pro.

Last updated: Thursday, August 19, 2010