test whether or not a web page work

[Bing Du]

Greetings,

How can I test if a web page (e.g. http://www.cpan.org) works or not in
a Perl script? If it returns normal contents, it's working fine. If it
gives errors (500, etc.), then it has some problems. The results are
obvious in browser. Just wondering how to do that outside of web browsers.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Bing

 

[gnari]

Greetings,

How can I test if a web page (e.g. http://www.cpan.org) works or not in
a Perl script? If it returns normal contents, it's working fine. If it
gives errors (500, etc.), then it has some problems. The results are
obvious in browser. Just wondering how to do that outside of web browsers.

Thanks in advance for any help,

perldoc LWP::Simple
perldoc LWP

gnari

 

[Sherm Pendley]

How can I test if a web page (e.g. http://www.cpan.org) works or not in
a Perl script? If it returns normal contents, it's working fine. If it
gives errors (500, etc.), then it has some problems.

Have a look at the LWP::UserAgent and/or LWP::Simple modules on CPAN. The
first is more flexible and powerful, while the second is (as its name
implies) a simpler but less flexible alternative.

sherm--