command line output from http query

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

what would be the simplest method for scripting a POST or GET query that would return to a UNIX command line or file? (NOT through a browser such as navigator or explorer).

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Re: command line output from http query by DamnDirtyApe (Curate) on May 30, 2002 at 22:44 UTC
`perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'getprint "http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?no +de_id=170534"'` [download] will print your PM node to the console. Is this roughly what you are looking for? _______________ D a m n D i r t y A p e Home Node \| Email	[reply] [d/l]
Re: command line output from http query by jsprat (Curate) on May 30, 2002 at 22:40 UTC
The simplest method? LWP::Simple!	[reply]
Re: command line output from http query by rbc (Curate) on May 30, 2002 at 22:44 UTC
You could try ... `$ telnet www.perlmonks.com 80 GET /index.pl` [download] ... but You will probably want to check out LWP	[reply] [d/l]