[oclug] access to a website with PERL

[Robert Echlin]

These are nice ideas, guys, but I notice that there is some code, a bit 
like Bob's, on page 349 of "Programming Perl". Maybe he is trying to 
learn sockets in a more general fashion than what CURL etc allow.

It's useful, for learning, to be able to look at the raw text going to 
the TCP socket. I like the UserAgent example, myself.

Robert

Chris Price wrote:

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> Kevin McCann wrote:
> | Bob Lockie wrote:
> |
> |> I am trying to access a web site with PERL.
> 
> | Hi Bob, have you tried curl? You could call it from within Perl using
> | system() if you need to feed the output to some other process within
> | your script. For example, when going to whatsmyip.com it returns to
> | stdout the HTML including the IP address within H1 tags. Your script
> | could extract the IP address from there.  Unless you just want to figure
> | out the direct Perl connection way as an exercise, in which case you can
> | ignore this.
> 
> Another way to use curl from within a perl script is to open up a file
> handle to it.  For example the following will let you read in the HTML
> of a web page line by line:
> 
> open( INPUT, "curl http://www/google.ca|" ) or die
> ~                                 "curl is not Installed,".
> ~                                 " or no connection to".
> ~                                 " Internet.\n";
> #
> # Read the HTML line by line.
> #
> while( $line = <INPUT> ) {
> ~    #
> ~    # Do what you want here :-)
> ~    #
> }
> 
> close( INPUT );
> 
> LWP::Simple is also a nice way to go, however I like using curl :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
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