open a URL file

[Marcello De Vita]

Hi, I am a beginnere in Perl and i have a small problem but i still can't find the solution. Can somebody help me?   In a program on an internet site I have this block: open (PAGE, "$file") ; while (<PAGE>) { s/%%name%%/$name/g; print $_; } close (PAGE); where $file is the absolute path to a file on the same machine. Now i would like to refer $file to a file on a different machine; so i have the URL of the file. I tried with OpenUrl, but I couldn't reach the same result with the while. How do i have to do? Thanks Marcello De Vita