in reply to grabbing html source

Dorward is aboslutely right. However, if the user is willing to give you their friends email address you could just generate an email that says something like:

Hello Friend

Dorward wants you to see this page at SomeSite.com.
Visit htt://someurl.com/that/you/gen to view the page.

Sincerely

SomeName

Like Dorward's solution, this is a win-win situation, because you also get the 'visit' to your page which helps with stats,

"Never take yourself too seriously, because everyone knows that fat birds dont fly" -FLC

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Re: grabbing html source
by b10m (Vicar) on Sep 09, 2005 at 15:01 UTC

    I'd go for this solution also because of the following reasons:

    1. No need to download page from your own server
    2. Way more friendly for the recipient:
      1. Smaller email
      2. User might not have a client that can handle HTML

    And if the URLs are terribly long, you might even throw it through one of the WWW::Shorten modules.

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    b10m

    All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.
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