how to open a web page using perl?

hvivekw · 11-02-2008, 01:27 AM

I would like to access/open a webpage using some perl commands.
I have to open the webpage and then perform some automation on some of the tabs that appear on the webpage.
I am unable to open the webpage itself...How do I do it with perl?

ghostdog74 · 11-02-2008, 02:09 AM

you can try LWP module.
If Perl is not absolutely necessary, you can do it with *nix tools like wget/curl/lynx or even bash

Code:

bash$ exec 5<>/dev/tcp/www.somewhere.com/80
bash$ echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.0\n" >&5
bash$ awk '{#do processing with tabs}' <&5

chrism01 · 11-02-2008, 07:24 PM

Also look at the WWW::Mechanize module.