Fellow monks,
I am currently using a script to get a list of data from a remote site, and open it for printing. Here is an example:
system("wget -c http://server/data.php");
open DATA, "data.php" or die "Cannot open data\n";
print "data is opened\n";
while (<DATA>) {
my ($item1, $item2, $item3) = split;
print "$item1 - $item2 - $item3\n";
}
Now, besides the fact that this is inefficient, it is also insecure. I am _certain_ that there is a module to do what I want without the need for the system function.
Any ideas?
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