From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 13 4:48:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D867E37B40F for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 04:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0AF12B68F; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 13:44:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2BA6D2F1; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:44:20 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:44:20 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Chris Aitken Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Website Retrieve in Perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011013214420.N2865@k7.mavetju.org> References: <20011013030023.M6274@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from chris@ideal.net.au on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:38:58PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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