[Wellington-pm] Problems with HTTPS through LWP.

Grant McLean grant at mclean.net.nz
Mon Jun 19 19:55:32 PDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 14:40 +1200, michael at diaspora.gen.nz wrote:
> >Interestingly, the code snippet in the synopsis of the Net::SSLeay
> >documentation does seem to work:
> 
> Irritating, on the other hand, is that the following program works:
> 
>     #!/usr/bin/python
>     import urllib
>     U = 'https://www.telstraclear.co.nz/usagemeter/index.cfm'
>     print urllib.urlopen(U).read()
> 
> Shorter than the Perl equivalent, even.  Bah.  Might have to use the
> Python mechanize library for this one.

The ruby version is pretty short too (and works)

    #!/usr/bin/ruby
    require 'open-uri'
    url = 'https://www.telstraclear.co.nz/usagemeter/index.cfm'
    puts open(url).read

But in both cases this is like comparing to LWP::Simple code in Perl
which would also be short (if non-functional).

Cheers
Grant



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