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Been trying to figure out a way to pass in the variable into a HTTPGet function for long time now. How to do it? Here's what I have so far, but it doesn't return anything.

<p id="date" style="font-family:Georgia, serif; color:#446c5a; font-style:italic; font-size:16px; padding-top:0px; margin-bottom:0;">%%xtmonth%% %%xtday%%, %%xtyear%%</p>

%%[Var @curdate, @url

SET @curdate = Format(Now(), "MMddyyyy")
SET @url = Concat("http://theurltograbdatafrom.com/index.php?d=", @curdate)

HTTPGet(@url)
]%%

<p>%%=v(@url)=%%</p>

Have also tried the following:

<p id="date" style="font-family:Georgia, serif; color:#446c5a; font-style:italic; font-size:16px; padding-top:0px; margin-bottom:0;">%%xtmonth%% %%xtday%%, %%xtyear%%</p>

%%[Var @curdate, @url
SET @curdate = Format(Now(), "MMddyyyy")
SET @url = Concat("http://theurltograbdatafrom.com/index.php?d=", @curdate)
httpget; @url ]%%

<p>%%=v(@url)=%%</p>

Both examples return absolutely nothing! However the return value in <p>%%=v(@url)=%%</p> returns the proper URL, but how to use this url in either of these ways??

I am putting this code in a Content Area and than calling it from within an email that has that content retrieved into it.

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    Sorry, but how it is related to Salesforce?
    – Andrii Muzychuk
    Commented Feb 13, 2014 at 22:56
  • Where is the exact target support forum? I did a search on Exact Target Help and this came up as #1 on the list.
    – Solomon Closson
    Commented Feb 13, 2014 at 22:57
  • I would just ask this question in general stackexchange forum.
    – Andrii Muzychuk
    Commented Feb 13, 2014 at 23:00
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    @Chiz - I disagree with you. ExactTarget is a Salesforce platform and it is slowly being integrated into the marketing cloud. Might as well build up all of the knowledge around it now.
    – drakored
    Commented Feb 13, 2014 at 23:11
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    Last comment on the topic but just for future reference we had a bit of a discussion on meta around whether ET questions would 'fit' this site and the overall consensus was that they definitely would, so while the technologies don't have a lot of crossover right now ET questions are welcome.
    – Matt Lacey ♦
    Commented Feb 14, 2014 at 2:52

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Here ya go for everyone needing to know this. Here's how it is done:

<p id="date" style="font-family:Georgia, serif; color:#446c5a; font-style:italic; font-size:16px; padding-top:0px; margin-bottom:0;">%%xtmonth%% %%xtday%%, %%xtyear%%</p>

%%[Var @curdate, @url
SET @curdate = Format(Now(), "MMddyyyy")
SET @url = Concat("http://theurltograbdatafrom.com/index.php?d=", @curdate) ]%%

%%=HTTPGet(v(@url))=%%

Many Thanks go to drakored for the syntax help on this!

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  • Ha, no problem. I was just about to post something similar for you to try out. Interesting syntax they have. This page should be helpful to anyone trying to learn this: help.exacttarget.com/en/documentation/exacttarget/content/…
    – drakored
    Commented Feb 13, 2014 at 23:45
  • I'm so happy that this is now working! I can relax now! I'm wondering if dd in the format string though will return 05 on the 5th day or if it just returns 5. I need to return 05, should it be changed to DD instead for this?
    – Solomon Closson
    Commented Feb 13, 2014 at 23:49
  • The docs I read said it's C# based. This page seems to indicate you'd be fine with dd as long as that page I read was correct that this is C# based. msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4(v=vs.110).aspx
    – drakored
    Commented Feb 14, 2014 at 0:01
  • From ExactTarget docs: "S1 A C# compatible format string. Valid values include:"
    – drakored
    Commented Feb 14, 2014 at 0:02
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    Yeah, I tried with DD and that just put the letter in there. So guess I will be using dd instead, as my original way of doing it.
    – Solomon Closson
    Commented Feb 14, 2014 at 0:20
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Adding to this answer. If you want to track links from the html you are pulling in, you will need to use a wrap function as well, as so:

%%[
set @var1 = "http://someurl.com"

var @getStatus, @content, @content2
set @content = HttpGET(treatascontent(@var1), false, 2, @getStatus)

set @content2 = Replace(treatascontentarea('TEST',@content),'http','httpgetwrap|http')

]%%

%%=TreatAsContent(@content2)=%%
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You can also use the RedirectTo function to use the URL inside your html code. 

<a href="%%=RedirectTo(@linkURL)=%%" target="_blank">
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  • While this is great and all, this is a URL only. I needed to pull in an entire webpage based on a dynamic URL as content inside of the email. This is much different than pulling in the url into an email. But thanks for the addition to this just the same.
    – Solomon Closson
    Commented Mar 17, 2018 at 0:05

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