Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: > I want to write a basic http download ( text/binary) script using > IO::Socket. Does anyone have any examples anywhere. > > > I know ,everyone must be wondering why I cant use ready modules like > LWP. > Well I want to auto transfer files to different remote machines. and > these machines ( in all flavors of unix/linux ) dont have tools like > LWP/ftp/wget/lynx etc and I cant install these on the machines > > So I plan to > run Apache http on my machine with these files > run a telnet script from my machine, that will login to these machines > and 'write' a simple perl script and then run it from the remote > machine and download the necessary files
There's really a tremendous amount of stuff that goes into writing an http client. I would try to script an ftp client session since you have telnet access to the systems. Or, if possible, configure the systems to accept ftp transfers originated from your central system. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
