On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 14:19, daniel wrote:
> i'm not sure if this is off topic or not
> but i think that's my problem...
> here's what i want to do
>
> 1. grab a page off the web
> 2. process it with a perl script
>
> that's it
> i thought something like
> wget www.site.com/index.html | perlscript.pl
> would work
> but no
> instead it just downloaded the index.html file and exited
>
> this has got to be easy
> i just have no idea how to do it
> suggestions?
Sure is an easy one. The answer is to do it all in perl, and your script
will be portable, even to messydos,
use HTTP::Request;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; #instantiate a user agent
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "www.site.com/index.html");
my $response = $ua->request($request);
if( $response->is_success ) {
# do something useful or..
print $response->content;
} else {
# if it fails print the error and save it as the output
print $response->error_as_HTML;
}
Easy eh?
See the HTTP::Request and LWP::UserAgent man pages for details.
hth
charles
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