Lynx???

[Austin Schutz]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:07:01PM -0700, Kilbey, Aaron wrote:
> Aloha everybody - 
> I'm attempting to issue an http request through lynx to save an XML file to
> a local server. 
> Here's the code:
> 
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> ----------
> Newsdump.pl
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> ----------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> system("lynx -dump http://www.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?feed=239&o=xml >
> news.xml"); 
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> ----------
> 
> 1. When I do: "bash$ perl newsdump.pl" I get a zero length news.xml

	Try running it in a shell. You'll see it try run lynx in the
background. This is probably not the desired behavior.
	Try:

system(
  "lynx -dump  " .
  "'http://www.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?feed=239&o=xml'" .
  " > news.xml"
);

	where the ampersand is quoted. See perldoc -f system, and note the
bits about sh -c.

	Austin
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