CURL Alternative.

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings, Monks.

I have this command -

curl --connect-timeout 15 "http://user:pass@hostip/bin/xml_agent" -d "
+xml_cmd=<request_raw>show stats</request_raw>"
[download]

Instead of using the system command and WWW::Curl, is there another way I can write in perl?

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Re: CURL Alternative. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 19, 2008 at 05:32 UTC
Perl has a very good HTTP library: LWP. `$ua->credentials()` can be used to supply the user and passwd. I don't know what `-d` does, so I can't recommend anything for that.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: CURL Alternative. by eserte (Deacon) on Mar 19, 2008 at 20:56 UTC
You can also embed username and password in the URL with LWP::UserAgent, just like in curl.	[reply]
Re^2: CURL Alternative. by Anonymous Monk on Mar 19, 2008 at 05:47 UTC
-d does a POST. The whole thing feeds the request to the HEADER and sends POST Data. The result of that command is in an XML format. Once I have that, I can parse it (TIMTOWTDI).	[reply]
Re^3: CURL Alternative. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 19, 2008 at 05:50 UTC
See `POST` in HTTP::Request::Common, part of the previously mentioned library.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: CURL Alternative. by bart (Canon) on Mar 19, 2008 at 12:18 UTC