Ouch! Absolutely correct - quoting the URL fixed it. Thanks for saving me a sleepless night!
cheers - rene 2010/7/26 Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> > > : However, when I'm trying this very URL with curl within my (perl) script, > I > : receive a NullPointerException: > : CURL-COMMAND: curl -sL > : > http://localhost:8983/solr/select?indent=on&version=2.2&q=*&fq=ListId%3A881&start=0&rows=0&fl=*%2Cscore&qt=standard&wt=standard > > it appears you aren't quoting the URL, so that first "&" character is > causing the shell to think yo uare done with the command, and you want it > to be backgrounded (allthough i'm not certain, since it depends on how you > are having perl execute curl) > > i would suggest that you avoid exec/system calls to "curl" from Perl, and > use an LWP::UserAgent instead. > > > -Hoss > >
