Re: [MacPerl] Request a .html page on another system

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

On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:51:07 -0500, Dan  wrote:
>
>I am new to Perl/CGI and could use a little help from the veterans.
>
>I need to request a .html page on a machine elsewhere on the net from a 
>Perl script for the side effects, there is no page info returned.  How 
>can I do this?

Depending on what you mean by "side effects", it can be as easy as

use LWP::Simple;
$page = get $url;

If you need to see return codes, you may have to use LWP itself. Use Shuck
to look at the documentation in LWP.pm and :LWP:Simple .pm and the file
lwpcook.pod. All of these come with MacPerl.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dan, Dan@Grassi.com
>



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Paul J. Schinder
schinder@pobox.com


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