Re: [MacPerl] grab web page

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

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At 11:50 AM +0200 5/13/98, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:

} Xah Lee <xah@best.com> writes:
} >Can anyone show me how to write the following function in *both* MacPerl
}and L
} inux?
} >
} ># &getWebContent('url') returns a string that is the web content (html
}text) a
} t the specified url. Example: $content getWebContent('http://www.apple.com');
}
} use LWP::Simple;
}
} $content = get('http://www.apple.com');

Yes, folks, it's just that simple.

With one caveat: libwww-perl-5 returns Unix text.  (There's one exception
to that rule, LWP::Simple::getprint().)  So if you want the text in
$content to be native, you do one more thing:

$content =~ s/\012/\n/g;

This is, of course, a no-op on Linux, so you might actually want

$content =~ s/\012/\n/g if $^O eq "MacOS";

One nice thing about LWP::Simple is that for purely simple requests, it
bypasses the rest of LWP entirely.  Matthias' script, which I just ran,
used only about 2 Mb of MacPerl's partition.  My normal LWP scripts take
about 6Mb before they start running.

}
} Matthias
}
} --
} Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
}http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
}    "One fine day in my odd past..." -- Pixies, _Planet of Sound_

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Paul J. Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

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