Hello,
First off, i just want to let everyone know i cannot install modules, for too man reasons. Basically, my boss wants me to grab data from about 10 different websties, and compile it. The address is similar to: http://www-mat.nextel.com/cgi-bin/stats-cgi/hist.cgi?netid=2623-null-null&report_type=Daily+Totals&market=PHL, and when put into a browser, the output looks like: 
null Sector null
                                                    Blocking          
+          IC_Call      Handoff      Intra BSC HO    Inter BSC HO     
+  Loss Of      Total
               Traffic (Usage) in Erlangs          Queue Rate         
+DCCH        Setup      Failures      Performance     Performance    T
+ransmission     Drop
   Date    DCCH     PCH    I.C.    Disp   Total    Disp    I.C.   OvrH
+d   Blkg     Blkg  L.O.R.  WeakUL   Drops    Rate   Drops    Rate   D
+rops    Rate  Events
today       0.3   0.267     4.9     4.8    10.0   0.00%   0.00%    3.5
+%   0.00%   0.00%   0.00%   5.77%       0   0.00%       0   0.00%    
+   3   0.64%       3
21Nov00     1.5   2.291    37.6    29.4    68.5   0.03%   0.15%    2.2
+%   0.00%   0.00%   0.10%   7.30%       2   0.10%       0   0.00%    
+  15   0.46%      17
20Nov00     4.5   2.074    36.5    23.7    64.7   0.09%   0.44%    7.0
+%   0.00%   0.00%   1.89%   4.43%       2   0.10%       0   0.00%    
+  19   0.56%      21
19Nov00     1.2   1.123    25.2     9.3    35.7   0.00%   0.00%    3.3
+%   0.00%   0.00%   0.00%   3.79%       2   0.15%       0   0.00%    
+  15   0.63%      17
18Nov00     0.2   0.218     5.1     1.5     6.8   0.00%   0.00%    2.9
+%   0.00%   0.00%   0.00%  15.71%       5   0.32%       0   0.00%    
+   0   0.00%       5
17Nov00     0.0   0.012     0.3     0.1     0.5   0.00%   0.00%    4.8
+%   0.00%   0.00%   0.00%   2.44%       5   0.23%       0   0.00%    
+   0   0.00%       5
16Nov00     1.5   2.220    37.5    27.3    66.3   0.15%   1.61%    2.3
+%   0.00%   0.54%   1.38%   2.85%      10   0.48%       0   0.00%    
+  23   0.68%      33
15Nov00     1.6   2.283    36.6    25.6    63.8   0.03%   0.56%    2.5
+%   0.04%   0.08%   1.80%   8.29%       4   0.20%       0   0.00%    
+  13   0.40%      17

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only a lot more. Basically, the perl script gets the necessary parameters, and imputs them into the url address. I am using part of a script from fastolfe's post. Re: Grabbing a web page without LWP or the like. Here is the code as it is in my script (only posting relevant code)
my $web = new IO::Socket::INET("http://www-mat.nextel.com/cgi-bin/stat
+s-cgi/hist.cgi?netid=$information[3]-null-null&report_type=Daily+Tota
+ls&market=PHL:80") or die "Couldn't connect: $@";

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where $information[3] is a 4 or 5 digit number which tells the hist.cgi what data to display. There are 2 problems which I can see.

1: the $information[3] doesnt register, it just comes up blank.
2: I get the die message everytime, and when i take the exact address that the script produces, and paste it into a browser, it works fine.

Again, i woul dlike to install LWP::Simple, and the other modules needed, but ive tried for hours, and 5 or 6 different people have helped me, yet still no luck.
Thanks In Advance

Dipul

In reply to grabbing webpage data w/o additional modules by ImpalaSS

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