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The webpage does not have a name to reference, as it is created dynamically

What does that mean?

I'm sure I'm missing something simple here, but LWP and HTTP ask me to specify an http://url and this page doesn't have one.

Well yes, yes you are. A web page has a web address, otherwise it isn't a web page. You need to learn about the internet to get an overall picture of how the internet works, , how tcp/ip, sockets, html, all fit together

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Re^2: capturing dynamic page
by cliffrubinmusic (Novice) on May 10, 2012 at 03:39 UTC
    what I mean is: I use a script to create the web page, so, in the address heading it say: http://myscript.pl

    myscript.pl parses the form parameters and then decides which subs to call from another script, allthepagesandforms.pm, which then pulls a whole mess of info from a database and with this data finishes putting together a web page. BUT, in the address heading, it just says http://myscript.pl

    That's what I mean. 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. can you help me with this? Thank you

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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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        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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