[rt-users] Best way to read in a remote URL in a Scrip?

[Adrian Carter]

Hi all,
    Just wondering what in everyones experience is the best way to 
scavenge some data via a HTTP GET session to a remote server? I've got a 
data-broker I built to interact with our inhouse DB system, and I just 
need to construct queries like a HTML path to it, and then read the 
results back.

    I currently have some nasty 'back ticks' spawning lynx with a 
'-dump' option then a couple of lines of 'clean-up' regex's... Is there 
a more elegant or more efficent way to do this ?

Thanks

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Adrian Carter
Technical Manager
Leading Edge Internet

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