[TriLUG] seeking WGET assistance, maybe LYNX is the answer ??

[William Sutton]

Pushing the Perl as a Hammer paradigm here, but why not use 
LWP::UserAgent?

William

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Turnpike Man wrote:

> I am connecting to a temp/humidity device with embedded web server.  It comes
> with a win32 based HTTPGET.exe proggy that has 2 switches in it that I need,
> but I don't want to use win32, plus the alarm portion requires Outlook to be
> installed with a working profile on the monitoring machine, which would be a
> server and I don't wanna do that.
> 
> So it would seem WGET would be a Linux replacement I could find such switches
> in, but I'm having not so good luck.  Here's the description of the WGET
> switches I'm seeking:
> 
> 1.  raw mode (no HTTP headers)  {-r in HTTPGET}
> 2.  POST string to URL  {-S in HTTPGET}
> 
> Then I'm going to append the results onto to a txt file, or better yet, to a
> database where I add a new row each time I grab results.  Maybe LYNX is another
> possible solution??
> 
> The HTTPGET get proggy sends a command like this to retrieve output:
> httpget -r -S "*SRT\r" ip.ad.dr.es:1000
> (where \r = carriage return termination character)
> 
> thanks in advance,
> David
> 
> 
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