topic Calling a url from a script in Operating System - Linux

Calling a url from a script

Jason_309 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:46:28 GMT

I need to be able to call a url from a script. Can some one point me in the correct direction please?

Re: Calling a url from a script

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:04:21 GMT

Hi Jason:

You need to provide a bit more about what it is you want to achieve.

If by "script" you mean a shell script, I'd suggest 'wget' as one choice. 'wget' will download files for you.

If by "script" you mean Perl code and a Perl script, then there are a multitude of modules available to do your bidding --- collect and parse information. You might begin with the 'LWP::Simple' module from CPAN, for example.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Calling a url from a script

Jason_309 — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:30:59 GMT

What i am trying to do is call a url in a script on unix. The url is a oracle form.

Re: Calling a url from a script

Court Campbell — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:37:29 GMT

jason,

as already stated look into perl and the lwp package. here is a link to a good book on using perl and lwp:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perllwp/

you might google some example scripts to get an idea of how to use the package.