Hello,

I'm stuck.

I have a perl script which does loads of cool and magical things. Basically it's an alert system which send out an email when things have gone wrong. It runs on a cron every hour. We now need to make it send out text messages, and i've found a solution here: http://www.clickatell.com which will let us do this. We just need to send a http request and the message will be sent.

So I need to get my script to send a request which looks like this: 

http://api.clickatell.com/http/sendmsg?api_id=APIID&user=me&password=p
+assword&to=mynumber&text=Hello+me

[download]

My question is how can I do this? If it was a web application this would be easy, i'd just open up a new window and tell it to go to that location, maybe using javascript or something. But this script is running on a cron every hour.

I think I might be being stupid here and the answer is quite simple, but I just don't know how to do it.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Tom

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