Mac OS X Panther Hacks 
by Rael Dornfest, James Duncan Davidson

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This page was updated February 11, 2005.

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Confirmed errors:


Please include the attached Dedication page in the next reprint of Mac OS X Panther Hacks:
"For Ralph Weisner, citizen engineer and consummate tinkerer"


(45)  3rd full paragraph;
SideTrack is shareware not freeware.


[74] Code on that page and the next;
Amazon has changed their Wish List HTML, so the screen scraping wasn't working properly. Below is an 
updated  version:

(*
Find Wish Lists in Address Book

The script loops through people in your Address Book, checking Amazon
to see if they have a Wish List. If their Wish List is found, you
have the option to view it in your default browser.

by Paul Bausch
*)

-- set some variables for the curl command

set userAgent to "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OSX; en-us)"
set curlCommand to "curl -i -b -A -L \"" & userAgent & "\" "

-- open Address Book and loop through people

tell application "Address Book"
      repeat with thisPerson in the people
              set thisName to name of thisPerson
              repeat with thisAddress in email of thisPerson
                      set thisEmail to value of thisAddress

                      -- build the URL that will search for the Wish List

                      set baseURL to "http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/search.html"
                      set thisURL to baseURL & "/?type=wishlist\\&field-name=" & thisEmail

                      -- use curl to fetch the search page

                      -- display dialog thisURL
                      -- quit

                      set thisWishPage to do shell script curlCommand & thisURL

                      -- if the Wish List URL is found in headers, prompt user for action

                      if thisWishPage contains "&id=" then
                              set theAction to display dialog thisName & " has an Amazon wishlist." 
                              buttons {"View", "Ignore"}
                              if button returned of theAction is "View" then

                                      -- build Wish List URL based on ID, and bring up

                                      set beginID to (offset of "&id=" in thisWishPage) + 4
                                      set thisWishID to get text beginID thru (beginID + 16) of 
                                      thisWishPage

                                      set beginID to 1
                                      set endID to (offset of return in thisWishID) - 1
                                      set thisWishID to get text beginID thru endID of thisWishID

                                      tell me to open location "http://www.amazon.com/o/registry/" & 
                                      thisWishID
                              end if
                      end if
              end repeat
      end repeat
end tell



{169} figure 3-12;
Figure 3-12 is the same as 3-11.  It should be this -
http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596007188/pithhelmet_add_rule.png


{433}  first command and second command;
the command has the user edit files in /etc/inetd.conf/, but inetd.conf is a file,
not a directory.  Also, the file for secure pop3 should be pop3s, not pops.

The commands should be:

$ sudo pico /etc/xinetd.d/imaps

and

$ sudo pico /etc/xinetd.d/pop3s

And the last command should be:

$ sudo /sbin/services pop3s start



(545) last paragraph;
...the second involves manuplating a BSD configuration...
should be:
...the second involves manipulating a BSD configuration...