Open url without packages

[BigBadDave]

How can I open a URL for parsing without having to install any packages (as I can't) I don't have lib

http://www-perl

installed so can't use LWP::UserAgent Regards
David Byng

http://www.byngdesigns.co.uk

davidbyng@hotmail.com

 

[fishiface]

With no packages you are pretty stuck: as this so completely emasculates perl you should probably check whether you have at least the standard set installed.

If you havn't, you can always do things like

[tt] system "wget --output-document=$tmpfile $url";
open( PAGE, $tmpfile ) or die "$0 $!";[/tt] "As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as
easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered.
I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life
from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."
--Maurice Wilk

 

[BigBadDave]

Thanks, I fixed this ages ago using: HTTP_LIB.PL Regards
David Byng

http://www.byngdesigns.co.uk

davidbyng@hotmail.com