[thelist] Can you open a url with a cgi script?

Dan Romanchik dan at danromanchik.com
Tue Aug 5 19:21:51 CDT 2003


Diane Soini" <dianesoini at earthlink.net> asks:
> Is there a way to read the contents of a document on another server from a
> cgi script on a server that doesn't have the LPW module installed? All the
> examples I can find on the web use this module, but our crabby admin won't
> install any modules.

You can do this in PHP with fopen().

Have fun!

Dan
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