Re: tlug: Web browsing from a batch file?

[Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@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?
> 
> If it's accessing the http server on the same machine, you could use
> Getweb, a perl module. Granted, this one is a bit of a bugger to get
> rolling. It's a tad outdated, so you need to install some older modules
> first, but all in all it works quite nicely. You can have cron email it
> a request to get a url (to user getweb) and it will return mail with
> the resultant page(s). 

I used geturl in the past. It's a perl program and can do HTTP
as well as FTP. 

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