is it possible to make an HTTP request from a Unix shell script? I know
I could use Perl to do this or even use the C library available at
www.w3c.org, but I'd rather find a solution that doesn't require the
installation of any component.

I managed to make an HTTP request by doing a telnet on port 80 (on
which my web server listens), but this opens a shell and then I have to
type the appropriate command to get the HTML (for instance, "GET
/index.html"). Is it possible to do that automatically (i.e. telnet
doesn't open a shell but opens the connection and then automatically
execute the query)?

Is there another way to do this?

Thanks

Olivier

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[snip]

In ksh/zsh/bash:

----- snip -----

telnet www.domain.com 80 2>/dev/null |&

{
        cat <<EOF
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.domain.com

EOF

cat <&p

----- snip -----

Zlo

I recomend that you get the following:

wget - this will get web pages or files off webpages
striphtml - strips HTML tags (< >)

John

You could use lynx, a unix text browser.

man lynx

for example:

lynx -dump http://www.tiac.net/users/demas

would dump the page to std output

and

lynx -source http://www.tiac.net/users/demas

would print the source code to std output

There are many other options.

man lynx

Is this what you had in mind?

Chuck Demas
Needham, Mass.

--
  Eat Healthy    |   _ _   | Nothing would be done at all,
  Stay Fit       |   @ @   | If a man waited to do it so well,
  Die Anyway     |    v    | That no one could find fault with it.
  de...@tiac.net |  \___/  | http://www.tiac.net/users/demas

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 olb...@iname.com wrote:

Or lynx, a ubix text browser.

lynx -dump <url>

or

lynx -source <url>

man lynx

Chuck Demas
Needham, Mass.

--
  Eat Healthy    |   _ _   | Nothing would be done at all,
  Stay Fit       |   @ @   | If a man waited to do it so well,
  Die Anyway     |    v    | That no one could find fault with it.
  de...@tiac.net |  \___/  | http://www.tiac.net/users/demas