Follow-up on some other remarks and clear up a misunderstanding. There is no such thing as a "curl API" to a webservice. This is a web/HTTP API and curl is just one of innumerable tools that can be used as an HTTP client to interact with that particular service's API.

HTTP is programming language agnostic. Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, C, is irrelevant. Shelling out from a program is harder than using packages like WWW::Mechanize. Though in this case since you're doing cut and paste programming, the curl advice you've been getting might be easier than starting over the "right" way.

In reply to Re: Curl usage with Perl's system command by Your Mother
in thread Curl usage with Perl's system command by perlron

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