Just a word of warning: LWP::Simple doesn't follow redirects (at least,
the last I checked, not sure if it's been changed in the 3 or 4
months since I've last used it...), so you need to be certain that you're
using it in a context where you're fetching something that won't return a
redirect.
HTH...
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Rodney Broom wrote:
>
> > OK, lots of banter...
> >
> > Hey V, if you are on a *NIX system, then this is a fast way:
> >
> > open U, "lynx -source www.some.url.dom |";
> > $data = join '', <U>;
> >
> > There, you're finished. Admittedly, this isn't terribly efficiant, but it works
> > just fine and has short devel time.
>
> This one is much more efficient and requires even less coding:
>
> use LWP::Simple;
> $content = get("http://www.sn.no/")
>
> And it doesn't require you to be on any particular OS, as far as I know.
>
> see perldoc LWP::Simple and as advised by many others LWP::UserAgent for
> more advanced uses.
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