in reply to CURL Alternative.

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.

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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.
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).