I apologize, but I'm a real beginner and thus must ask...what is a sanity
check and better yet, how do I add one?
>From: "Jos I. Boumans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Sparkle Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: perl and internet files
>Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:45:52 +0200
>
>you'll need to build a regexp that fetches all the image files, and then an
>lwp thingie that goes and retrieves them
>
>think of something like this:
>
>### $res->content is the return value of a LWP request
>my @images = $res->content =~ |<img.+?src=\"?(.+?)\"|sig;
>
>you'll have to add a sanity check to see if the matches you get are full
>paths, or relative paths tho.
>
>then say something like:
>
>for (@images) {
> my $url = ... #something with $_ and a sanity check for path
>
> $req = new HTTP::Request('GET', $url);
>
> # then do whatever you want with your images... remmeber you pobably
>need binmode set if you want to do something with them in perl
>}
>
>hth
>Jos Boumans
>
>
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>From: "Sparkle Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 2:30 PM
>Subject: perl and internet files
>
>
> > I have written a perl script that retrieves in html style text from
>internet
> > files. I need to also retrieve the images that accompany the text. Is
>there
> > a module I can use to do this? I also was wondering, if I desired to
>open
> > the files retrieved in a browser window, is there any way I can write a
> > construct into my script to automatically do that?
> >
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