#!/usr/bin/perl -wT use strict; use LWP::Simple; use XML::Simple; my $config = XML::Simple::XMLin("test.xml"); my $base = $config->{base}; if ($base =~ m{^(http://[\w\.\/\-]+)$}) { $base = $1; } else { print $base, " didn't match\n"; } print get("$base/index.html");