William Sutton wrote:
Pushing the Perl as a Hammer paradigm here, but why not use
LWP::UserAgent?
William
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Turnpike Man wrote:
I am connecting to a temp/humidity device with embedded web server. It comes
with a win32 based HTTPGET.exe proggy that has 2 switches in it that I need,
but I don't want to use win32, plus the alarm portion requires Outlook to be
installed with a working profile on the monitoring machine, which would be a
server and I don't wanna do that.
So it would seem WGET would be a Linux replacement I could find such switches
in, but I'm having not so good luck. Here's the description of the WGET
switches I'm seeking:
1. raw mode (no HTTP headers) {-r in HTTPGET}
2. POST string to URL {-S in HTTPGET}
Not to discount the usefulness of LWP at all (that's certainly a
programmatic way to do it), but if you're looking for a more
single-command oriented user interface, curl does a nicer job of
"posting" www than wget, IMHO. By nicer I suppose I mean it has a
cleaner interface (and can handle cookies, other elements, etc although
your particular app doesn't appear to require it). You may want to
investigate it as well.
Aaron J.
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