Hi - I have a program which currently opens a local file, reads it in line by line, and then closes the file (a standard kind of thing to do). I need to know how to open a file over http to do the same thing. Here's my barebones code: 
  open(DATAFILE, '../libsearch/SAMPLE.TXT');
  while (<DATAFILE>) {
    print $_;
    }
  close(DATAFILE);

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Instead of the relative filepath, I tried this line: 
  open(DATAFILE, 'http://www.jaywil.com/libsearch/SAMPLE.TXT');

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Didn't work. How can I open a file over http to read it's successive text lines, as if it were local?

Thanks so much!

In reply to how to open a data file via http by mwhiting

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