At 05:14 PM 4/9/2001 -0700, jc vazquez wrote:
>From: "Dan Sugalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > While I don't know if Larry will mandate it, I would like this code:
> >
> > open PAGE, "http://www.perl.org";
> > while (<PAGE>) {
> > print $_;
> > }
> >
> > to dump the HTML for the main page of www.perl.org to get dumped to
>stdout.
> >
>
>Now I would like to get some of the metadata for that page like expiration
>date, length, content type, etc. How?
You use libnet or its perl 6 equivalent. The filename's magic and, like
other magic filenames, there's a limit to what you can do with it.
>Moreover, the http server would return a "404" in case the remote document
>is not found (probably not under the example above, but...) I would like
>ability to trap such type of remote exceptions.
So it fails and sets $? and $^E like normal.
Dan
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