Re^3: using the web scraping proxy

Did wsp.pl work without the ">" redirection?
Not sure what you mean by "use firefox as the proxy". Can you elaborate?
Do you mean that you set up firefox to use the computer running wsp.pl as the proxy?
The "bad filename" problem is probably a file permission issue or something similar. Are you in a directory where you can create files? Try "ls > filetosaveto" to verify that.

andyford
or non-Perl: Andy Ford

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Re^4: using the web scraping proxy by coder57 (Novice) on Nov 06, 2006 at 23:27 UTC
`Did wsp.pl work without the ">" redirection?` yes `Not sure what you mean by "use firefox as the proxy". Can you elaborat +e? Do you mean that you set up firefox to use the computer running wsp.pl + as the proxy?` [download] yes used firefox, and added the proxy with the -p flag `The "bad filename" problem is probably a file permission issue or something similar. Are you in a directory where you can create files? Try "ls > filetosaveto" to verify that.` still says bad filename	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: using the web scraping proxy by andyford (Curate) on Nov 07, 2006 at 10:40 UTC
If "ls > filetosaveto" is giving an error, then you need to try creating your file in a directory where you have permissions. Try this: `wsp.pl > /tmp/web_scraping_proxy_output` [download] Forget the -p, -v flags for now. One problem at a time. andyford or non-Perl: Andy Ford	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: using the web scraping proxy by coder57 (Novice) on Dec 21, 2006 at 01:18 UTC
Maybe I should have mentioned I am using win98se typing the above, even though it still says bad command file name saves all the information from site to the specified file but it isn't in perl code, I read somewhere another program translate.pl is required that has to be run on the saved file to get it to perl code.	[reply]