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Date:      Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:44:20 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Website Retrieve in Perl on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20011013214420.N2865@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110132117480.9987-100000@ion.ideal.net.au>; from chris@ideal.net.au on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:38:58PM %2B1000
References:  <20011013030023.M6274@blossom.cjclark.org> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110132117480.9987-100000@ion.ideal.net.au>

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On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:38:58PM +1000, Chris Aitken wrote:
> I want to be able to, from within a perl script, go and grab the contents
> of a URL and capture it into a string. Im using the standard install of
> FreeBSD 4.3 with Perl 5. Can anyone point me in the right direction of
> what I should be looking at. I know how to do this with PHP no problems,
> but as this is a lesson im teaching myself in MRTG graphing, I need to do
> it in perl.

It's a long time ago (indeed, php is easier :-) but I've had good
experiences with the p5-libwww in /usr/ports/www/p5-libwww.

Edwin

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