[ic] Grabbing a web page content using LWP::Simple

[Mat Jones - booksellersolutions.com]

Are there any interchange docs on the [get-url] tag?

Thanks

Mat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed LaFrance" <edl@newmediaems.com>
To: <interchange-users@lists.akopia.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [ic] Grabbing a web page content using LWP::Simple


> At 11:06 PM 03/21/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >I need to grab the contents of a web page. I have tried using the below
> >code.
> >
> >[perl Global=1 subs=1]
> >use LWP::Simple
> >my $return=LWP::Simple::get('http::/www.somesite.com/index.html')
> >return $return
> >[/perl]
> >
> >No matter what library I use and the arguments to the perl call. I can
not
> >get it to return the page. It will send the request but will hang up
trying
> >to read from the socket.
> >
> >I have tried setting it up as a Global Sub, as a usertag and plain perl
> >using Use Socket. The code will work fine outside of minivend but will
> >always hang when it comes to reading from the socket. It will write to
the
> >socket but can not read from it.
> >
> >How can one read in the contents of a web page?
>
> I assume you have verified that LWP::Simple is installed.  Did you try the
> GET utility? it comes with the example scripts in the LWP dist, in a /bin
> subdirectory, or it may already be in your /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.
Try
> at the command line:
>
> GET http://www.someworkingsite.comn
>
> ...if it works you will see the html echoed to the screen.  Also, there is
> a [get_url] usertag for Interchange, have you tried that?
>
> - Ed L.
>
>
>
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