RE: cURL in ActiveState Perl

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Holleran
Sent: 11 April 2013 17:34
To: [email protected]
Subject: cURL in ActiveState Perl

> Good afternoon,
>
> Is there a cURL library for ActiveState perl?  I am running ActiveState on a Win 2008 x64 system & need to use > cURL or wget or something to call a URL.
>
> I came across this:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~sunnavy/Plient-0.03/lib/Plient.pm#DEPENDENCIES

> but it seems like this is a wrapper (though it lists no dependancies).
>
> I tried:
> >ppm install WWW-Curl-Simple
> ppm install failed: Can't find any package that provides WWW-Curl-Simple
>

Sounds like you are looking for LWP, which is part of the standard distribution, IIRC. Look at LWP::Simple to start with, and if that's not enough 'perldoc lwptut' and 'perldoc lwpcook' should help.

HTH

--
Brian Raven




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