>>>>> "Sean" == Sean M Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sean> As I was setting up this RSS feed the other day Sean> http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/~sburke/new_rfcs.rss Sean> I had occasion to want to request the last N bytes of a particular URL. Sean> And this is how I did it, with LWP: >From rfc2068: A suffix-byte-range-spec is used to specify the suffix of the entity-body, of a length given by the suffix-length value. (That is, this form specifies the last N bytes of an entity-body.) If the entity is shorter than the specified suffix-length, the entire entity-body is used. o The final 500 bytes (byte offsets 9500-9999, inclusive): bytes=-500 So, you went to a lot of extra work. Could have done it in one hit. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
