On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Tim Musson wrote:
CD> use LWP::Simple; CD> $content = get($URL);
CD> Or to be more robust about it:
CD> use LWP::Simple; CD> unless (defined ($content = get $URL)) { CD> die "could not get $URL\n"; CD> }
CD> Make sense?
Yep, I also noticed Net::HTTP. Any reason I should use one over the other?
The LWP bundle is the primary toolkit for client side web programming with Perl. Unless you're doing something more involved -- like the things that can be done with WWW::Mechanize and HTTP::Recorder -- the LWP toolkit is probably the place to start for this kind of work.
I mean really, how much simpler can it be than "get($url)" ? :-)
But read the perldoc for LWP (and the modules it bundles) to get a fuller idea of what you can do:
<http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.800/lib/LWP.pm>
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