"Jason Dusek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 10:56 PM, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > There is atleast 1 Perl program for downloading Yahoo mail out there. Okay, but let's say I want to learn how to do it anyway. It seems like a good practice problem. I recommend WWW::Mechanize. It is a programmatic OO web browser. http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize-0.66/ It has filtered out a lot of the repetitive tasks, so you can get straight to the business of getting at your data. ( In your case the html hyperlinks and forms that trigger the server to perform some action on your mail.) WWW::Mechanize doesn't do JavaScript, so you will have problems, for instance, if the "href" attribute of an <a> tag uses the javascript:/ protocol. Also, you may have issues with using a non-standard http client when making requests to the web server. Sometimes servers like that filter out requests from unknown user agents.. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
