Re: Using perl how do you write a script to copy a remote file into your own site

From: Paul Lalli (mritty_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:18:48 GMT

"ARGENTINA" <sjprec@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f2747eca.0412290510.f238d00@posting.google.com...
> Using perl how do you write a script to copy a remote file into your
> own site. In my situation want to copy a rss feed from
> http://remoteserver/news.xml for example.

http://search.cpan.org is usually a good place to start.

For just saving a file off the web, I would recommend using LWP::Simple.
For working with RSS feeds, go to the above site and search for RSS, and
use whichever module looks best suited to your task.

Paul Lalli

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