Hi Monks,

I'm pondering a project which would involve fetching random web pages and displaying them via CGI script. A most vexing puzzle for me has been how to do this elegantly.

For example, if I fetch the page via WWW::Mechanize, I need to look for all img tags, href's, and anything else using a relative path and prepend the base URL of the site to it, before passing it on to the browser, if I want it to look "right".

But this gets real complicated real fast when dealing with javascript, css, and other assorted unexpected references--not to mention sites that gaurd against others using their images. I've even contemplated taking a screenshot of the page, but even then the perl modules I found depend on X windows based tools like Mozilla or Webkit, and I really don't want to have X Windows on my Linux server at all (and also my project involves making relevant changes such as highlights or underlines on the fly).

Is there an elegant way to fetch a page, and re-display it reliably?

In reply to Re-rendering web pages by rastoboy

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