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definitely fun, especially after spending all afternoon installing various modules prerequisite to LWP (smiley)

i modified this program so you can say:
www.foo.com/ instead of www.foo.com/index.html
and it reads the url from the command line and just prints the page to stdout
just in case anyone cared

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Socket;
use strict;
                        #i don't know what $line is
my $line;                #but i left it in anyway
my $trailingslash;

my $URL = $ARGV[0];        #get URL from command line
$URL =~ s/http\:\/\///;    #get rid of "http://" if it's there

if ($URL =~ m/\/$/) {        #check for trailing slash 
   $trailingslash = 'true';    #(i.e. get /index.foo)
}
else {
   $trailingslash = 0;
}

my ($HOST,@temppage) = split('/', $URL);
my $PAGE = join('/', @temppage);

if (($trailingslash) && ($PAGE)) { 
    $PAGE = "/$PAGE/";         #reattach the trailing slash
}
else {
    $PAGE = "/$PAGE";
}


socket(HTML, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, getprotobyname('tcp')) || die $!;
connect(HTML, sockaddr_in(80,inet_aton($HOST)));

my $REQUEST = "GET $PAGE HTTP/1.0\n\n";
send(HTML, $REQUEST, '');

while(<HTML>)
{
 print;                         #to STDOUT
}
close HTML;
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of course, we could just make the program respond to 301 Moved Permanently. ha.
-b

In reply to RE: Re: Grabbing a Web Page by bobby
in thread Grabbing a Web Page by elusion

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