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what I mean is: I use a script to create the web page, so, in the address heading it say: http://myscript.pl

Um, that is not possible, unless myscript.pl is the name of your host

What I'd like to do is take one of these dynamically produced web pages and, instead of just parsing the form parameters..store the entire web page source code along with the parameters in a file.

Store it where?

can you help me with this? Thank you

See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro.html#Files-and-I%2fO and follow the links I gave you

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Re^4: capturing dynamic page
by cliffrubinmusic (Novice) on May 10, 2012 at 11:23 UTC
    thank you..I read the section on file handles..from what I can see, it still needs a name. please show me if I've missed something

    Sorry..you are right. It's http://website.com/cgi-bin/myscript.pl

    The problem remains the same..using Get(http://website.com/myscript.pl) out of lwp does not get me the results I am after. No matter what page shows up in the browser, it says http://mywebsite.com/cgi-bin/myscript.pl

    the field forms are consistently parsed by cgi.pm, so, I'm thinking the entire page must be being parsed to get at the form tags. Does cgi.pm have a variable that is already holding the entire page I can call,use and manipulate?

    I have read through the docs you've recommended, and, again, I'm sure I'm missing something rather simple, but, I'm just not seeing it.

    $query=new CGI;

    @names=$query->param;

    gives me an array of all the parameters

    is there a function call to give me the entire page? if not, is there another way to get the entire page, when the address for every page is the same? thank you

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      Hi, different Anonymous monk here. (Either that, or I have a multiple personality disorder. I wouldn't count that out.)

      No matter what page shows up in the browser, it says http://mywebsite.com/cgi-bin/myscript.pl

      Your form is being submitted to myscript.pl in that address via the HTTP POST method. The method usually requires key-value pairs for the query part. You should be searching what the required key-value pairs (well, not strictly pairs) are (the name and value attributes in the form you are submitting), and then read the LWP documentation on how to make a POST request with the pairs.

      The result of that POST request will be the HTTP response that contains the HTML page.

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        So, are you saying that one of the name, value pairs holds the entire source code of the web page?

        I thought the name, value pairs were only inside the form, not the formatting or any of the other tags and commands inside the web page. I'm looking to get the whole enchilada like I could with get() in LWP, but through whatever pipe might be feeding the page to cgi.pm

        please enlighten me

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