[thelist] CGI::get?
Dwayne Holmberg
dholmberg at medialogic.ca
Wed Aug 23 23:15:42 CDT 2000
Jeremy Ashcraft writes:
> I remember vaguely a reference to a perl function in the CGI.pm module
> that you can pass it a url and it will return the contents of that page
> in a string. Something like
>
> $text = CGI::get("http://www.evolt.org");
i don't recall this in CGI.pm offhand, but you might be thinking of LWP::UserAgent
#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent('bob/0.02', 'wowbobwow at blacklodge.com');
my $request = new HTTP::Request('GET', $url); # inheritted by LWP::UserAgent
my $response = $ua->request($request);
my $content = $response->content();
__END__
on vacation and mixing fine martinis, so please check this against the docs.
- dwayne
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