On 8/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> We read the content of external file like this:
>
> open(TEXT,"newtext.txt");
> print TEXT;
> close (TEXT);
>
> But how to read a file located on another server? Is there a module or
> hack for it?
> This wouldn't work, obviously:
>
> open(TEXT,"http://vunet.us/contact/index.asp";);
> print TEXT;
> close (TEXT);
>
> Thanks.

Take a look at LWP::Simple:
http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.808/lib/LWP/Simple.pm

specifically the get function.

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