Edited by Corion : Removed <pre> tags.

okay, here's the deal. My web server is interacting with another web server via https. This other web server is eventually going to send an XML page back to my url. my job: parse this page. My question is not how to parse XML, but how to get the page in the first place. I deal mainly with cgi parameters and this is the first time I've had to do this.

Most XML examples I've seen already have some generic xml file defined (ie: $file = c:\temp\files\example.xml), but my problem is getting this file in the first place. Should I use IO::Socket to 'listen' on port 443, then use XML::Parser to parse the 'stream'? Not sure if I'm looking in the right direction here. Your help would be greatly appreciated - or at least point me in the right direction.

Thanks.
'..Tis not a man - tis a remorseless eating machine...argghh'

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