Re: questions concerning using perl to monitor webpages

[@ncientgoose]

use this bit to get the page code
@ancientgoose

use Net::HTTP;
my $link = 'http://www.whateverlink.com';
$link =~ s/.+:\/\/(.+)/$1/ if ($link =~ /.+:\/\/.+/);
my $s = Net::HTTP->new(Host => "$link") || 0;
my $htmlcode = '';
if ($s) {
    $s->write_request(GET => "/", 'User-Agent' => "Mozilla/5.0");
    my($code, $mess, %h) = $s->read_response_headers;
    while ($n = $s->read_entity_body($buf, 1024)) {
        $htmlcode .= "$buf";
    } 
}