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Re: View Source by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Dec 27, 2002 at 21:22 UTC
It's possible to have a perl program that grabs the html generated by a CGI script by acting as a browser. Look at the docs for the LWP series of modules.	[reply]
Re: (nrd) View Source by newrisedesigns (Curate) on Dec 28, 2002 at 06:10 UTC
Perhaps you could elaborate on why you specifically need the browser to interpret the HTML instead of using LWP to get it. Do you need to analyze Javascript or something else dynamic? Also, why don't you sign up and stay a while? John J Reiser newrisedesigns.com	[reply]
Re: View Source by ehdonhon (Curate) on Dec 27, 2002 at 21:52 UTC
I don't know of any browsers that support that kind of thing in a totally automated way. Of course, you could always go to "File" and select "Save As...", then reading the source in with perl would be very simple.	[reply]