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Re: Wget using backquotes

by Anonymous Monk
on Feb 18, 2007 at 18:34 UTC ( [id://600733]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Wget using backquotes

Thank you all for your excellent answers. Zentara, you're really beyond human ;-} I appreciate the code. Just to be clear, I cannot use "system" because I need to report on the status of the pages I am analyzing. Most of these link are huge PDF files. I am not really interested in the content but just the status header information. MHTTP and GHTTP sound very useful. I will have to benchmark them against wget. Frankly, I'd rather just use Perl. Again, thank you for your help. You guys rock!

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Re^2: Wget using backquotes
by hacker (Priest) on Feb 18, 2007 at 19:07 UTC

    As I previously mentioned... you want IPC::Run or IPC::Open3...

    You do not want to use system here either. Well ok, you CAN use system in "list mode" here to avoid spawning a shell, but this is NOT what zentara showed you, that approach is unsafe.

    Using "backticks" (otherwise properly known as "accent grave" is deathly unsafe, and you should never use anything of the sort. From the pod:

    IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error handling

    Also, you should be using one of the standard LWP modules here, and catching the response codes that come back, instead of relying on a userland binary (which can easily be faked, opening a hole in your system).

    If you don't value the security of the system, then go ahead and implement the unsafe, incorrect approach.

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