in reply to Visit web-pages using perl

LWP::Simple (and other LWP modules) can help you download web pages. There's also WWW::Mechanize if you have to worry about sessions.

I'm not sure what you're assigning to an array, though. That implies you wish to fetch multiple "somethings"? I don't know what that "something" would be.

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Re^2: Visit web-pages using perl
by jeanluca (Deacon) on Sep 22, 2005 at 18:02 UTC
    The array was an example. I just like to access a mysql database on a remote computer using apache. So I send a request to that cgi script. That cgi script accesses a database and returns the output back to this script.

    Luca
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      There are two approaches to this, depending on how important this is and how flexible/extensible/stable you want or need it to be.

      The simple way would be to cause the CGI to return the data in some easily-parsible form, like a Storable block, an XML document, or something similar, then parse it on the client side appropriately.

      The ideal way would be to implement a SOAP (or other web-services API) service on the server, and write a client for it.

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