FW: Lynx???

Aaron Kilbey aaronkilbey at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 9 16:29:56 CDT 2002


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:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"); 
------------------------------------------------------------------------


1. When I do: "bash$ perl newsdump.pl" I get a zero length news.xml

2. When I do: "bash$ perl newsdump.pl > news.xml" I get a news.xml that
is a numbered list of the news links which is not XML. 

3. When I run http://www.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?feed=239&o=xml in a
web browser, I get the XML document.

I need to have the ability to call this script to automatically retrieve
and save the new file. Please help.


-Aaron Kilbey

TIMTOWTDI



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