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Re: st: run STATA DO files on web?
From
Eric Booth <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: run STATA DO files on web?
Date
Wed, 3 Mar 2010 22:13:32 -0600
>
The problem is that google groups redirects your browser twice when you click the link for a file stored on google groups. If you file is located at: http://groups.google.com/group/mygroup/web/myfile.do it redirects to http://mygroup.google.groups.com/web/myfile.do because this is the way that googlegroups stores its files. Then that link redirects to a permanent location with a really long link. This last file is the only one you can directly with the -do- or -type- command, the first two files have all the html code that causes Stata to choke.
For example, I uploaded a file called "test.do" to the google group for Stata users at http://groups.google.com/group/stata-users-forum/web/test.do
If I simply use the link for "test.do", here's the error I get:
***************
do http://groups.google.com/group/stata-users-forum/web/test.do
/*
file http://groups.google.com/group/stata-users-forum/web/test.do not found
server says file permanently redirected to http://stata-users-forum.googlegroups.com/web/test
> .do
*/
***************
So, this gives me the redirect location.
If I put that location into my command, it will show me all the html code that stata can't interpret...I guess you could write a program that scrubs this from the file before running it, but that seems like a pain:
****************
type "http://stata-users-forum.googlegroups.com/web/test.do";
*this gives me all the html code*
do "http://stata-users-forum.googlegroups.com/web/test.do";
**this gives the error below because stata doesnt understand the html tags:
/*
. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1
> /DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
unrecognized command: < invalid command name
*/
*****************
Finally, if you click on the file in google groups and reload the redirect page (or check the browser activity window if you've got a browser with developer tools), you'll see the permanent link in the address bar which you can use with -do- or -type- , and this will work.
You could also create a shortened URL with tinyURL, etc.
e.g.,
********
type "http://stata-users-forum.googlegroups.com/web/test.do?gda=SSPw7TkAAAAPhBKiy-Lip7KBXQRJm6l7AkTaK8g6FtbEzVxEVHzAqNf1Dl8eJvI6PhNUW9PsXbqECKgQbmraGdxlZulaYnsh";
do "http://stata-users-forum.googlegroups.com/web/test.do?gda=SSPw7TkAAAAPhBKiy-Lip7KBXQRJm6l7AkTaK8g6FtbEzVxEVHzAqNf1Dl8eJvI6PhNUW9PsXbqECKgQbmraGdxlZulaYnsh";
**be sure to correct the wrapping of these commands**
*******
~ Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
Office: +979.845.6754
On Mar 3, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Kit Baum wrote:
> <>
> I don't have any problem with Stata commands like
>
> type http://fmwww.bc.edu/cfb/stata/testweb.do
> do http://fmwww.bc.edu/cfb/stata/testweb
>
> The do-file runs just fine. My web server (Apache) is configured to serve .do, .ado etc. as MIME text/plain. Perhaps on some servers (particularly Microsoft IIS) a ".do" file is served as some other MIME type which Stata does not like.
>
> Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin | http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
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