I want to write a program, either in Perl or C that will connect to an HTTP server, at port 80, and be able to request from that server an HTML, ASP or CGI page, and receive from the server the streamed HTML in text format. How can this be done? Please be detailed, or if you can, please point me to references on the net that answer my question. [sig][/sig]
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Perl's not a bad choice for that, have a look on CPAN (start at
Have you heard of the CGI module btw? [sig]<p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href= Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>Making mistakes, so you don't have to. <grin>[/sig]
Have you heard of the CGI module btw? [sig]<p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href= Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>Making mistakes, so you don't have to. <grin>[/sig]
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Try open()ing it as a file. [sig]<p> Sincerely,<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= Anderson</a><br>CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.<br>
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The CGI module is available on CPAN and comes with some reasonable documentation. [sig]<p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href= Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>Making mistakes, so you don't have to. <grin>[/sig]
I have been working on some perl code to do this and then do some replacements. Here is the relevant perl code if you are interested (it is probably not great)
[tt]#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI qw/:standard :netscape/; # don't think this line is neccesary
require "/u/httpd/cgi-bin/cgi-lib.pl"; # don't think this line is neccesary
$url = 'use LWP::Simple;
$content = get("$url"
;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print $content;[/tt]
If anyone has any ideas on this or
which is a related topic I would love to know [sig]<p>fortytwo<br><a href=mailto:will@hellacool.co.uk>will@hellacool.co.uk</a><br><a href= test site</a><br> [/sig]
[tt]#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI qw/:standard :netscape/; # don't think this line is neccesary
require "/u/httpd/cgi-bin/cgi-lib.pl"; # don't think this line is neccesary
$url = 'use LWP::Simple;
$content = get("$url"
;print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print $content;[/tt]
If anyone has any ideas on this or
which is a related topic I would love to know
[sig]<p>fortytwo<br><a href=mailto:will@hellacool.co.uk>will@hellacool.co.uk</a><br><a href= test site</a><br> [/sig]This looks good:
[sig]<p> Sincerely,<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= Anderson</a><br>CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.<br>
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[sig]<p> Sincerely,<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= Anderson</a><br>CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.<br>
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