Perl programming on MPE/iX - February 2001

February 9, 2001
Solution Symposium
Page 36
hp e3000
perl
programming
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;
$webpage = get('http://www.bixby.org/mark/perlix.html');
• See http://www.linpro.no/lwp/ for more information