Access official AppleScript documentation

Apple eliminated URL Access Scripting.app in Lion for unknown reasons, and obviously hasn't released any documentation on why they did so or workarounds. Additionally, if you copy over the app, it will appear but it still won't work.

Likely the best workaround until documentation is released (although I wouldn't be surprised to see others recommend this) is to change your scripts to use curl. Editing the scripts should be fairly simple, and curl is actually quite reliable and useful.

If you don't know curl, you should be able to figure it out fairly quickly, it's nothing too challenging. Here is an example of a script that was converted (by another user) to curl. My apologies if it isn't exactly the same as your scripts, but you should be able to get a few ideas from the block of code.

-- Using URL Access Scripting
set myFile to ((path to temporary items) as string) & "url_access_file.xml"
tell application "URL Access Scripting"
download "http://whateverlink.com" to file myFile
end tell

-- Using curl
set myFile to (POSIX path of (path to temporary items)) & "curl_file.xml"
do shell script "curl -L " & "http://whateverlink.com" & " -o " & myFile

There is a document from Apple called "Mac OS X Server Open Directory Administration For Version 10.4 or Later".

Read Appendix "Mac OS X Directory Data", it contains all what you ask about:

• "Standard Attributes in Group Records" at page 222
• "Standard Attributes in User Records" at page 217

Here is excerpt from the last one:

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You can get this document here.

There are a lot of newer documents on Apple site (haven't seen them yet). They may be useful to.