Perl programming on mMPE/iX - August 2001

HP World Page 33August 21, 2001
mpe as a web client
• it's now possible to write MPE applications that look like web browsers
• perform simple HTTP GET requests, or even complicated HTTP POST
requests to fill out remote web forms
#!/PERL/PUB/perl
use LWP::Simple;
# read the web page contents into the scalar variable $webpage
$webpage = get('http://www.bixby.org/mark/perlix.html');
• See http://www.linpro.no/lwp/ for more information