tlug: Web browsing from a batch file?

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

Is it possible to have a batch file (started by cron each night) access a
web server and then email the resulting HTML page? Is this something best
done in perl? Can it be done with perl -e do you think?

The URL I want to access is a cgi-bin program that will update a database,
generate a report, etc. The alternative is to write a standalone version of
the cgi-bin program, which is something extra to compile, install and test
each time the program changes.

Darren

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