Re^2: Unable to split $ARGV[0] variable. Can it be done?

Sorry, domain name was what I meant yes. No it wasn't a typo. 'http://www.google.com' is passed in to the script and a 'get' request is made against that URL using LWP. If the get request fails, it then tries a different prefix 'https://www.google.com' or 'http://google.com' for example. I want to split the domain name away from the prefix so I can chop and change the combinations as I please. It may be easier to have just the domain name passed in to the script and then the script can handle ALL of the prefixes itself.

I appreciate all the responses and am currently working through the suggestions to see what I can work with.

Comment on Re^2: Unable to split $ARGV[0] variable. Can it be done?

Replies are listed 'Best First'.

Re^3: Unable to split $ARGV[0] variable. Can it be done?
by McDarren (Abbot) on Dec 10, 2012 at 16:36 UTC

It may be easier to have just the domain name passed in to the script and then the script can handle ALL of the prefixes itself.

Yeah, that sounds sensible.
Here is an example of how you might implement that approach:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple;

DOMAIN:
while (my $domain = <DATA>) {
    chomp($domain); 
    for my $protocol (qw/http https/) {
        next DOMAIN if test_url("$protocol://$domain");
        for my $sub (qw/www web/) {
            next DOMAIN if test_url("$protocol://$sub.$domain");
        }   
    }   
    print "Couldn't get anything from $domain\n";
}   

sub test_url {
    my $url = shift;
    print "Trying $url ...";
    my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(
        timeout     => 5,
        agent       => 'Mozilla/5.0',
        ssl_opts    => { verify_hostname => 0 },
    );  
    my $response = $ua->get($url);
    if ($response->is_success) {
        print "OK\n";
        return 1;
    }   
    else {
        print "FAILED because " . $response->status_line . "\n";
        return undef;
    }   
}   

__DATA__
google.com
apple.com
fred.com
dschjksdbckjqh.com
[download]

Trying http://google.com ...OK
Trying http://apple.com ...OK
Trying http://fred.com ...OK
Trying http://dschjksdbckjqh.com ...FAILED because 500 Can't connect t
+o dschjksdbckjqh.com:80 (Bad hostname 'dschjksdbckjqh.com')
Trying http://www.dschjksdbckjqh.com ...FAILED because 500 Can't conne
+ct to www.dschjksdbckjqh.com:80 (Bad hostname 'www.dschjksdbckjqh.com
+')
Trying http://web.dschjksdbckjqh.com ...FAILED because 500 Can't conne
+ct to web.dschjksdbckjqh.com:80 (Bad hostname 'web.dschjksdbckjqh.com
+')
Trying https://dschjksdbckjqh.com ...FAILED because 500 Can't connect 
+to dschjksdbckjqh.com:443 (getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provide
+d, or not known)
Trying https://www.dschjksdbckjqh.com ...FAILED because 500 Can't conn
+ect to www.dschjksdbckjqh.com:443 (getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname
+ provided, or not known)
Trying https://web.dschjksdbckjqh.com ...FAILED because 500 Can't conn
+ect to web.dschjksdbckjqh.com:443 (getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname
+ provided, or not known)
Couldn't get anything from dschjksdbckjqh.com
[download]

HTH,
Darren

[reply]
[d/l]
[select]


good chemistry is complicated, and a little bit messy -LW
	PerlMonks