Hi, I'm new to Perl (and perlmonks), so hopefully this isn't embarassing:

I'm looking for a way to pop up the resulting webpage of a search I have defined in my script.

I'm using LWP to input my search parameters and execute the search too, but what I get back is the HTML code corresponding to the result page. I want to actually launch that page from the search engine server to retain the formatting and everything. Basically I want to request the page and give it my input parameters at the same time.

Also, for some search engines I've tried I'm getting null results for valid search parameters, so I'm wondering if it's even possible to use LWP requests for the site I have in mind, but I guess that is a whole other question.

The following is the example I'm following, from CPAN:

  use LWP::UserAgent;
  my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
  $ua->agent("MyApp/0.1 ");

  # Create a request
  my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'http://search.cpan.org/search'
+);
  $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
  $req->content('query=libwww-perl&mode=dist');

  # Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
  my $res = $ua->request($req);

  # Check the outcome of the response
  if ($res->is_success) {
      print $res->content;
  }
  else {
      print $res->status_line, "\n";
  }

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