Re: Load URL in Web Browser Using Perl Script

Two words: Problem Definition!

What platform? WinBloze? Linux? Solaris? MacOS?

The solution to what you are trying to do depends on where you are trying to do it.

On Unix/Linux I would do something like:

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previous code (lots of handwaving)
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# $netscape contains the full path to the 
#         netscrape browser
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# $url contains the URL I want opened.

system(sprintf("%s %s",$netscape,$url));
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Peter @ Berghold . Net

Sieze the cow! Bite the day!

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Re: Re: Load URL in Web Browser Using Perl Script by Anonymous Monk on Jul 31, 2003 at 16:27 UTC
is the vice-versa possible ??? i.e from the web browser can i fetch the url and pass it to a perl script . Thanks for ur previous help .	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Load URL in Web Browser Using Perl Script by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Jul 31, 2003 at 17:35 UTC
What are you trying to accomplish? Web scrapes? If you are trying to scrape results from a web query look at LWP::UserAgent. Peter @ Berghold . Net Sieze the cow! Bite the day! Test the code? We don't need to test no stinkin' code! All code posted here is as is where is unless otherwise stated. Brewer of Belgian style Ales	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Load URL in Web Browser Using Perl Script by Anonymous Monk on Jul 31, 2003 at 19:16 UTC
Hi , I want to retrieve the url from the browser and pass it to the perl script . Eg: If I have a web page like yahoo.com opened in the web browser then I need to retrieve the url from the browser and pass it to perl script . if the web page is like rediff.com then it should pass the web page url from the browser to the perl script . Is it possible .	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Load URL in Web Browser Using Perl Script by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Jul 31, 2003 at 19:28 UTC
Re: Re: Re: Re: Load URL in Web Browser Using Perl Script by Anonymous Monk on Aug 02, 2003 at 06:33 UTC
Hi , What I want to do is fetch the url from the web browser and then retrieve the text under the cursor position for that web page which is opened in the browser. Can it be done using perl script???	[reply]