Re: [MacPerl] get urls

[George Michel <gmichel@siteriggers.com>]

>>Don't use a browser, use MacPerl:
>
>Yes, as long as you want to download only a few URLs. In my
>experience it is much faster (albeit more complicated) to call
>Netscape since it can do multiple simultaneous connections.
>
>I am using a short script to automatically download 80 to 100 pages
>of a German newspaper every morning. It's not very well commented,
>but works very well, for about a year now and should be good enough
>for a starter. Interested parties mail me off-list.
>

I now have two sites  that I cannot access with Perl or MacPerl using LWP
(seems to be a problem with POST requests and redirects) and would find a
technique to use the browser to grab the data a very useful tool, if not an
elegant one.

George



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