[SOLVED: Convert HTML from llHTTPRequest into plain text? (HTML and XML coded characters converted to Unicode)]

Thanks so much gang

I added this in this afternoon, and it caught most of the problematic characters. Thanks especially Jenna Huntsman for handling the initial heavy lifting!

The only thing I added was handling for XML characters mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML#XML_character_references
It seems like all the characters that were being encoded are ones that might have an impact on HTML/XML.
Other than that, 𝓾𝓷𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓸𝓷 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓯𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓼 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓮 ♥●•٠·˙

There's probably a better way to structure them, but here's my edits anyhow

string HTMLreplaceCodedChars(string s_rawHTML)
{
    //Replace coded HTML/XML characters with Unicode equivalents. Credit: Jenna Huntsman, KT Kingsley, Quistess Alpha, Haravikk Mistral, AndreRush
    //Uses code from http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Combined_Library#Replace
    while(llSubStringIndex(s_rawHTML,"&#") != -1) //Loop until no more encoded characters exist in the string.
    {
        integer i_hit = llSubStringIndex(s_rawHTML,"&#"); //Find coded character start.
        integer i_charID = (integer)llGetSubString(s_rawHTML,i_hit+2,i_hit+5); //Find the character number to convert to unicode character.
        if(llGetSubString(s_rawHTML,i_hit+5,i_hit+5) == ";") //If it's a 3 value coded character
        {
            s_rawHTML = llDumpList2String(llParseStringKeepNulls(s_rawHTML, [llGetSubString(s_rawHTML,i_hit,i_hit+5)], []), llChar(i_charID)); //Replace coded character with unicode equiv.
        }
        else //Nope, it's a 2 value character.
        {
            s_rawHTML = llDumpList2String(llParseStringKeepNulls(s_rawHTML, [llGetSubString(s_rawHTML,i_hit,i_hit+4)], []), llChar(i_charID)); //Replace coded character with unicode equiv.
        }
    }
    //Below handles various XML characters that are encoded differently. Since we know exactly what character it needs to be,
    //we can just replace it without needing to look it up. 
    while (llSubStringIndex(s_rawHTML,""") != -1)
    {
        integer i_hit = llSubStringIndex(s_rawHTML,""");
        string i_charID = "\"";
        s_rawHTML = llDumpList2String(llParseStringKeepNulls(s_rawHTML, [llGetSubString(s_rawHTML,i_hit,i_hit+5)], []), i_charID);
    }
    while (llSubStringIndex(s_rawHTML,"&") != -1)
    {
        integer i_hit = llSubStringIndex(s_rawHTML,"&");
        string i_charID = "&";
        s_rawHTML = llDumpList2String(llParseStringKeepNulls(s_rawHTML, [llGetSubString(s_rawHTML,i_hit,i_hit+4)], []), i_charID);
    }
    while (llSubStringIndex(s_rawHTML,">") != -1)
    {
        integer i_hit = llSubStringIndex(s_rawHTML,">");
        string i_charID = ">";
        s_rawHTML = llDumpList2String(llParseStringKeepNulls(s_rawHTML, [llGetSubString(s_rawHTML,i_hit,i_hit+3)], []), i_charID);
    }
    while (llSubStringIndex(s_rawHTML,"<") != -1)
    {
        integer i_hit = llSubStringIndex(s_rawHTML,"<");
        string i_charID = "<";
        s_rawHTML = llDumpList2String(llParseStringKeepNulls(s_rawHTML, [llGetSubString(s_rawHTML,i_hit,i_hit+3)], []), i_charID);
    }
    while (llSubStringIndex(s_rawHTML,"&apos;") != -1)
    {
        integer i_hit = llSubStringIndex(s_rawHTML,"&apos;");
        string i_charID = "'";
        s_rawHTML = llDumpList2String(llParseStringKeepNulls(s_rawHTML, [llGetSubString(s_rawHTML,i_hit,i_hit+5)], []), i_charID);
    }
    return s_rawHTML; //pass the new string back
}

 

[SOLVED: Convert HTML from llHTTPRequest into plain text? (HTML and XML coded characters converted to Unicode)]

I went through llUnescapeURL() earlier hoping/praying, but no dice. 
Are you aware of any other ways to access profile text? From what I saw, there's no direct access in world, but feel free to tell me there is llGetProfileTextAlsoAndreHowDidYouMissThat haha

[SOLVED: Convert HTML from llHTTPRequest into plain text? (HTML and XML coded characters converted to Unicode)]

Edit: Solved below! 

Hey ya'll, first time poster, short time lurker! 

I'm currently using llHTTPRequest to fetch profile information from https://world.secondlife.com, eg https://world.secondlife.com/resident/3b1b8cdf-6768-44e7-88a7-669f88d8a864

However, what is being returned is using HTML for punctuation. 0

Eg 

I'm new, god help me

is returned as

I'm new, god help me

I understand that it's just fetching the raw HTML. But is there a way to either.... 

• Convert that into normal text?
• Tell it to fetch the normal text in the first place? 

Thanks in advance!