[cobalt-developers] Re: cobalt-developers digest, Vol 1 #411 - 8 msgs

[cLive hoLLoway <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Herb Rubin schrieb:
>> 
>> I have a Perl cgi program that wont do this:
>> 
>> $html = `lynx -source www.yahoo.com`;
>
>
>why calling an external program ? open a socket, print the http
>header(s) to it, in this case a GET request and read the output into an
>array or a string.

Errr, even easier, use the libwww package.

use LWP::Simple;

my $content = get('http://www.yahoo.com');

cLive ;-)

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