Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:44:20 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Website Retrieve in Perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011013214420.N2865@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110132117480.9987-100000@ion.ideal.net.au>; from chris@ideal.net.au on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:38:58PM %2B1000 References: <20011013030023.M6274@blossom.cjclark.org> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110132117480.9987-100000@ion.ideal.net.au>
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On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:38:58PM +1000, Chris Aitken wrote: > I want to be able to, from within a perl script, go and grab the contents > of a URL and capture it into a string. Im using the standard install of > FreeBSD 4.3 with Perl 5. Can anyone point me in the right direction of > what I should be looking at. I know how to do this with PHP no problems, > but as this is a lesson im teaching myself in MRTG graphing, I need to do > it in perl. It's a long time ago (indeed, php is easier :-) but I've had good experiences with the p5-libwww in /usr/ports/www/p5-libwww. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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