kena5 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there a way to use perl to capture the current web page in an email? I'm trying to setup a report abuse link that would send an email of the offending web page to an administrator.

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Re: Capture Current Web page in an email
by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 19, 2010 at 16:34 UTC

    Assuming what you really mean is "capture the page currently being viewed in a browser and attach the capture to an email...."

    1. Just send the URL -- the admin can ("will" is a different story) look at it without getting a mailbox jammed with pix of a website.
    2. but if that's not satisfactory...
      write a script to capture the page (LWP perhaps; you may find some profit in reading this at perl.com), write it to a file (or to memory if you choose to make your script monolithic) and use any of the standard modules (MIME:xxx; see search.cpan.org/perldoc?MIME::Lite) to attach it to an email.

    The question suggests, however, that you need to work on a fundamental subject: the role of modules in the Perl world.

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      If you have the capability (ie if it's installed) you can use wget to download the whole page, store it somewhere on that disk, then record the file/path name to it in your email... I agree that #1 above is the best thing to do though. Your network admin might care about sending screenshots/screenscrapes, or whatever method you use. They could get big very quickly.

      I also agree, the right modules will probably get you 90% of the way there.
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        Thank you all for your input. It has been very helpful.

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