Hello, everyone! It's been too long.

I have a quandary... I wish to determine how to grab a webpage through HTTP without using any libraries outside the standard Perl distribution. What's more, I need to it work on any Win32 system, so Lynx is RIGHT OUT.

My aim is to create a single, fully self-contained .pl file which can grab a webpage through HTTP, and then just vomit out the HTML code, nothing spectacular. Workability through a proxy server, while a delightful prospect, is not required. If necessary I can absorb code from modules which have already accomplished as much, but methinks that I have seen, in some foregone posting, a simple routine for doing this thing I describe... but any search provides too many impedimentary matches to be useful. How, praytell, would you kind folk go about coming to the ends I seek?

Many thanks,

Alan "Hot Pastrami" Bellows
-Sitting calmly with scissors-

In reply to Grabbing a web page without LWP or the like by Hot Pastrami

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