I've written a fairly sophisticated html spider using perl, lynx and tcsh (as glue), all the pages accessed are CGIs and it works as advertised. Have you tried to use 'lynx --source' or 'lynx --dump' as suggested?

I've refrained from using LWP as the target CGI system required cookies, sessions and full browser support.

Moreover, Lynx has a limited script option '-cmd_script=<script file>' that you can use to program what it does (download files, etc). Use '-cmd_log=<script log file>' to learn the syntax of the script files.

In my case I first download the pages, use perl to parse and analyse them, build a custom lynx script to retrieve exactly the data I want and run lynx again with the generated script.

dani++

In reply to Re: Retrieve a CGI page by dani++
in thread Retrieve a CGI page by Anonymous Monk

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