Reading the Web from Perl

[Javier Mosqueda]

To open a file in my own domain is easy:

open(HANDLE,"../www/myfile.txt");

cause I know the structure of the directory.[nbsp][nbsp]

But how can I read something from another domain of which I only know its URL? (http://anotherdomain.???)[nbsp][nbsp]My idea is to grab some news or quotes from other sites and include them in any of my pages.

Suggestions highly appreciated.

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Javier Mosqueda
crystalking.com (http://crystalking.com)

[Justin]

Try the LWP libraries:
</font><font face="Courier" size="3">
use LWP::Simple;
$text = get (&quot;http://foo.bar/page.html&quot;);
</font><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">
Or something to that affect. Best way to find out is to do a search for LWP at any good Perl site.

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Justin Nelson
FutureQuest (http://www.FutureQuest.net/index.php) Support

[Javier Mosqueda]

Hi Justin:

Thanks for your advise.[nbsp][nbsp]I just went to my CGI-BIN directory, uploaded a little routine:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
print &quot;Content-type:text/html\n\n&quot;;

$pag = get(&quot;http://excite.com&quot;);
print $pag;

And it worked perfect, except for certain relative references to some GIF's that Excite calls, (which I don´t need), I basically need news, some quotes and simple little things from other sites.[nbsp][nbsp]I also wanted to thank you for your support and to let you know that all worked fine.

So far, that´s all I need from the LWP.[nbsp][nbsp]Processing the &quot;absorbed&quot; page to extract what I need will be fun.[nbsp][nbsp]

Regarding other functions from LWP, I downloaded the whole library from http://www.linpro.no/lwp/, the file &quot;libwww-perl-5.46.tar.gz&quot;, but there is no real manual, any suggestion on where to obtain it?.

Thanks
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Javier Mosqueda
crystalking.com (http://crystalking.com)

[fuddmain]

You may want to check out www.perl.com (http://www.perl.com) and check out the article on RSS.[nbsp][nbsp]RSS is how headlines from numerous sites are shared and used as &quot;channels&quot;.[nbsp][nbsp]If you're familiar with Netscape's portal or Slashdot you've seen this in action.

The article does a much better job of explaining it than me, so I'll shutup.


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Brian