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

[Todd Chapman]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:38:43PM +1100, Adrian Carter wrote:
> 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
> 

Somehow I am missing the connection to RT.