Hiya, I just started running some CGI scripts. Very cool. But I'm running into a problem both with an example in the CookBook and with a script given to me. Both use LWP so I'm thinking that I'm missing a module or something. I have the basic Active State install loaded on a WinNT book. I see a LWP folder under Perl\site\lib. The script (> >see below) given to me seems to be returning bad data: <head><title>Error in CGI Application</title></head> <body><h1>CGI Error</h1>The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:<p><p><pre></pre> The example from the book "times out" each time I run it. Here it is: perl -MLWP::Simple -e "getprint 'http://www.perl.org/press/fast_facts.html'" Any clues as the problem would be much appreciated. Script notes: > >Bruno, > > I used CGI and LWP::Simple to get ESPN's AL East baseball standings table > >and then rewrite that table into a format that I wanted. You can see it at > >http://jasper.cs.yale.edu if you're curious (insert shameless plug for the Red > >Sox here). But that sort of thing might help you to grab the source for an > >HTML page. Here's the snippet that's the critical part, and if you want my > >whole script, let me know and I'll send it to you. > > > >#!/usr/bin/perl > > > >use CGI; > >use LWP::Simple; > >use strict; > > > >open OUTFILE, ">/var/www/html/baseball.html"; > >my $content = get("http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/standings";); > >my @lines=split(/\n/,$content); > > > >Obviously it may not be necessary for you to split the content up into an > >array, but I found it useful for what I was doing. > >As far as checking to see if a page is available for browsing, you might just > >check the contents for any one of <HTML>, <TITLE>, <HEAD>, or <BODY> or > ><A HREF or <IMG (all case insensitive, of course). Chances are pretty high > >that if a page is live you'll hit one of those on any page. There's gotta be a > >better solution, though. > > > > Pete
