As mentioned, LWP is probably much better than what you're trying.. If you want to experiment, you might look at the LWP::UserAgent module.. it is cool because it has great options and you can politely identify yourself. However I found the documentation a bit abstruse.. so below is a quick example that might help.. 

use LWP;

my $finaldata;
my $query_url = 'http://www.bla.com/';

sub get_pagesum {                                                     
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   my $ua       = LWP::UserAgent->new( agent => 'http://mysite.com/');
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   my $response = $ua->get("$query_url",                              
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                              ':content_cb' => \&gen64,               
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                             );                                       
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}                                                                     
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sub gen64 {                                                           
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   my($data, $response, $protocol) = @_;                              
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   return $finaldata .= $data;                                        
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}

# whatever you got off the last request
# should now be contained in $finaldata

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(In my case I was sending $finaldata off to be md5 checksummed.)

Of course, if your file contains a list of URLs you must fetch, then you'll be carrying out the procedure for each line in the file...

In reply to Re: open a socket and print from stdin....i think by hsinclai
in thread open a socket and print from stdin....i think by stevenrh

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