I am new about using perl with the internet. I would like to use perl to
get the web page content using perl. For example, if I input
" http://www.*-*-*.com/ " to my perl program, my perl program will give me
the source content of that web page. Could this kind of thing be done by
perl? Any suggestion?

Thanks,

-- Chris

You can use backtics (``) to just run Lynx and capture the output:

$html_code = `lynx -source $url`;
$text_data = `lynx -dump $url`;

This, of course, assumes you have lynx installed.  You can also do it in
100% perl.  The LWP::Simple perl module makes this very easy:

use LWP::Simple;
$content = get("http://www.perl.com/");

For full documentation, you can type "perldoc LWP::Simple".  If you don't
have the LWP::Simple module installed, you can get it with the CPAN.pm
module:

perl -MCPAN -e shell;
install LWP::Simple

For slightly more complicated requirements, you can use LWP::UserAgent.
Speaking of which, could anyone provide me with an example of fetching a
password-protected page with LWP::UserAgent? tnx.

And that's it.

Tobin Fricke

Check out the documentation for the LWP module.

: I am new about using perl with the internet. I would like to use perl to
: get the web page content using perl. For example, if I input
: "http://www.perl.com" to my perl program, my perl program will give me
: the source content of that web page. Could this kind of thing be done by
: perl? Any suggestion?

   There are Perl modules for doing that.

      use LWP::Simple;

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    Tad McClellan                          SGML Consulting

    Fort Worth, Texas

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    the wrong place.  --Larry Wall in the perl man page