Mark Bixby posted an example of the power of Perl when it comes to
network and sockets programming. He also posted a challenge for anyone
to duplicate his example which used just just two lines of code.
Benji York also pointed out that Python can do this stuff easily and
posted a four line example using ftp. He alluded to other modules, so I
used one of them to take up Mark's challenge.
The following TWO line script gets the Apache installation test page
from our HPe3000 system:
import urllib
(urllib.urlopen('http://sys3.npd.com/index.html')).readlines()
And the result (copied from the MS-DOS Prompt window):
D:\user\misc>d:\opt\python\python getfile.py
['<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">\012',
'<HTML>\012', '
<HEAD>\012', ' <TITLE>Test Page for Apache Installation on Web
Site</TITLE>\012
...<rest snipped for brevity>...
Rob Joseph
The NPD Group
