Please see What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information?, and also Writeup Formatting Tips.

If you type [id://250682], you will get a link like Re: HTML::Form problem with the node title automagically retrieved for you and the link being relative to whichever hostname people are browsing from.

(You can browse the site from perlmonks.com as well .org, with and without www., respectively. For the hostnames other than the one you're using your cookie does not apply, so following such a link appears to log you out.)

Makeshifts last the longest.

Thanks for the tips. I read those some time ago but didn't catch the significance of the internally-supplied linkage method. I arrogantly proceeded with HTML knowledge in hand, despite the warning that we're supposed to limit HTML in these messages -- I thought it was just for bulk reduction, not actual, operational, practical value.

:-(

use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

print get('http://home.earthlink.net/~marinersk/');
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That should give you your page. Of course you can save that as a stream and do whatever you want with it to your heart's content.

Hope that helps!

There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling now.

Many thanks! Short, sweet, and to the point.

Good candiate for a SNIPPET submission! It does what the other snippets did not -- provide direct access to the function needed.

(Might want to change the URL in the call, though)

Best guess. You have a downlevel or broken install. Try this. You'll need to swap "s for 's if your on *nix.

perl -MLWP::Simple -e"print get(q[http://home.earthlink.net/~marinersk
+/])"
[download]

If that works, then you've a starting point, if it doesn't, consider verifying/upgrading/re-installing your perl install?

Well, improvement -- no output at all.

My best guess is that you (or your isp) are using a proxy. Read the section of the pod for LWP::UserAgent on the $ua->proxy(...) method.

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