Re: Retrieving Info from other Web pages

yep; LWP is the right way for HOW you want to do this.
But if you do this more often, better think about Information exchange with these other sites using different techniques, e.g. XML- documents sent as a request and also as an answer - so you both have the info you need while the surfer remains at your site also. (Just a thought)

Have a nice day
All decision is left to your taste

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Re: Retrieving Info from other Web pages by cLive ;-) (Prior) on Apr 02, 2001 at 04:39 UTC
Simple example to slurp in Google's home page: `#!/usr/bin/perl use LWP::Simple; my $page; unless (defined ($page = get 'http://www.google.com')) { die "Can't retrieve page"; }` [download] Although I think it's worth learning the more complicated LWP::UserAgent module if you're doing something with more depth... cLive ;-)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Retrieving Info from other Web pages by cobra (Novice) on Apr 01, 2001 at 19:53 UTC
Thanks alot. The program is for an acedemic project of limited scope, so probably no need for info exchange. I need to retreive online routeplaning information from various sources and then display the results to the user.	[reply]