Perl programming on MPE/iX - April 2002

Solution Symposium Page 34April 4, 2002
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