Sorry to yell, but this is like the 8th message in a week.
Your question is an HTTP question. If you're writing this in Perl, I
strongly recommend getting libwwwperl from www.ics.uci.edu. That, or
read the HTTP specs, which are pointed at from the same machine.
Brian
On Sun, 28 May 1995, Paul Williams wrote:
> Recently I am running up against a problem. I have a CGI script that reads
> a remote page, but I don't know how to talk with the server. I have made
> the following guess:
>
> telnet> open thishost.thisdoamin 80
> ..
> GET thispath/thispage.html HTTP//
>
> will this work? Is there a better way? Is this problem best left to proxies?
>
>
> pcw@hooked.net -------------------------------+----------------------+
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> =(___)= +---------------------------------------------+ n---@ h++ f(+) !g |
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> Prodigy? Are you kidding? -------------------+----- AOL: Just say NO!
>
>
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