internet2.R

## 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)
}