Getting page date from remote web server

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Hi There everyone.

I'm trying to get data from my ESP32 or 8266 from a distant web server that i manage.
I want to get different data from the web server that i can parse to an object in the adruino class but i don't know how i can get a page data from my server to be downloaded to the ESP32.
I don't know if this is possible, i try with ESPAsyncServer to try to open a websocket on port 80 so that the ESP32 can query a page data from a specific directory on the web server Ex:page1.htm, page2.html etc.
These page contains data to display a led pattern on a 16x16 led panel using the adafruit lib the data is sequentially a text file containing multiple colomns for each led in the panel. That part i can manage but the part i don't know how to manage is getting the page like http:\myserver.com\adruino\page1.html and receive the data in a global variable that i can parse and extract each column into a led object that i already created .
So if someone have a good idea on how to get that page from myserver.com and receive the data i will really apreciate any idea or method that i could use to get this data.

Thansk to all and happy developpement for your project.

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What's you need - data or date?
The title is about date (say "November 12, 2014"), but the question is about general data - like a pixel table to display on led panel.

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for the ESP8266 see the example

ESP8266HttpClient / BasicHttpClient

If the request was successful, you have the payload in the String object payload.

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Wow i never thought that was simple like that, i guess that programming in multiple language sometime you loose the perperstive of the basic operation, thank you guys to have put me on the wright track.

And BTW it was data not date date is too much simple.

Happy programming to all.

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to be fair, the language C++ is quite complex, but the libraries for the Arduino Framework make such things a walk in the park as people have invested lot of their time to make it "easy" ...

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