Look at the LWP::* modules (LWP::UserAgent, or LWP::Simple, in particular). It comes with the libnet distro on the CPAN.
Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:22:17PM -0400, david ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > There used to be a url_get library, is there something else now? i couldn't > find anything on CPAN, this is a http protocol issue right? I just want to > have a user enter a url on a form page, then crawl that url for the specified > text string. Thank you > -- [Writing CGI Applications with Perl - http://perlcgi-book.com] I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that means it's going to be up all night. -- Steven Wright -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]