Searching remote file system

[mjh66]

I have written a Perl script that is called from a browser and is given a UNC or Physical pathname plus a filename without the extension as an argument, e.g. \\server\share\dir\file
The script then searches this remote directory path and finds (or not) the first file it comes to with the same filename.
It then shows this file in the browser - mainly txt, pdf, doc.
All this works OK but now I want to get to a file using http - can I do this ??
I would like to issue the argument

http://server/alias/dir/file

for example.

Thanks in advance.

 

[MikeLacey]

Hi there - I'd start with the LWP module from

http://www.cpan.org

Mike

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[mjh66]

Thanks Mike - I will have a look.
Regards, Matthew.