PERL Programming - GET doesn't work!

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GET doesn't work!

Captain Nemo

2004-03-18, 6:47 pm

Hi

I'm running Red Hat 9 on an IBM Thinkpad and I've not done any perl
programming up to now. I'm working on a project which requires downloading
files from other webservers, and the obvious way would seem to be the perl
GET script.

However, on my system it doesn't work. Whatever arguments or options you
give it, it just hangs.

As far as I know, perl is working OK. I've tried running other scripts with
the --help option and they respond appropriately.

Is there some daemon I need to have running for GET, POST and HEAD to work?

Matt Garrish

2004-03-18, 6:47 pm

"Captain Nemo" <Captain@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
news:f6Q1c.8908$E77.119629020@news-text.cableinet.net...
> Hi
>
> I'm running Red Hat 9 on an IBM Thinkpad and I've not done any perl
> programming up to now. I'm working on a project which requires
downloading
> files from other webservers, and the obvious way would seem to be the perl
> GET script.
>
> However, on my system it doesn't work. Whatever arguments or options you
> give it, it just hangs.
>

I can't see into your machine to figure out what might be wrong, so I'll
just suggest that you try the following one-liner instead:

perl -MLWP::Simple -e
'getprint("http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/lib/lwpcook.html")'

And then read that page for more info on how to use the LWP::Simple module
to grab pages for you.

Matt

Ben Measures

2004-03-18, 6:47 pm

Captain Nemo wrote:
>
>
> I'm not on my Linux partition right now but this is what I
> recall
>
> I typed:
> $ which GET
>
> and got
> /usr/bin/GET
>
> I then typed
> $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/GET
>
> and got something with 'perl' and 'www' in it
>
> I cd'd to /usr/bin and loaded GET into Emacs
>
> It looks like a perl script to me. Also if I type:
>
> $ man GET
>
> I get a lot of stuff about perl.
>
> This is about all I can tell you. I don't understand what you
> mean about the 'cgi GET'. Isn't most CGI stuff written in perl?
>
>

Is this tha library/package?

http://lwp.linpro.no/lwp/

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Ben M.

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