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CGI in Perl

 
Ricky B. Nino
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CGI in Perl

Hi,

Any way I can call a URL from Perl code?

Thanks...
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Steve Steel
Honored Contributor

Re: CGI in Perl

Hi


Put perl url in a search engine like google

Get things like

http://perl-webget.sourceforge.net/mywebget.html

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Perl/Q_20121828.html

Regards

Steve Steel

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Gregory Fruth
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Re: CGI in Perl

use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;

$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->agent("my_agent/1.0");

$req = new HTTP::Request(GET =>
"http://some.url.org/foo/bar");
$res = $ua->request($req);
if ($res->is_success()) {
print $res->content();
}