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

[Aaron S. Joyner]

William Sutton wrote:

>Pushing the Perl as a Hammer paradigm here, but why not use 
>LWP::UserAgent?
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>William
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>On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Turnpike Man wrote:
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>>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}
>>
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Not to discount the usefulness of LWP at all (that's certainly a 
programmatic way to do it), but if you're looking for a more 
single-command oriented user interface, curl does a nicer job of 
"posting" www than wget, IMHO.  By nicer I suppose I mean it has a 
cleaner interface (and can handle cookies, other elements, etc although 
your particular app doesn't appear to require it).  You may want to 
investigate it as well.

Aaron J.