Web Client Programming with Perl: Automating Tasks on the Web

Wong, Clinton

ISBN 10: 156592214X / ISBN 13: 9781565922143

Published by O'Reilly Media, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Web Client Programming with Perl: Automating Tasks on the Web
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156592214X
• ISBN 13: 9781565922143
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Enables those familiar with the Perl language to go beyond the capabilities of graphical web browsers for the purpose of automating the retrieval, manipulation, and redistribution of web-based information. Includes discussions of HTTP transactions and protocol, an introduction to writing web clients with Sockets, and LWP (a library module that simplifies HTTP programming). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Review

If you've ever wanted to learn more about Web protocols so you could build custom client-side tools to automate tasks--or just so you have a better understanding of what's happening behind the scenes--then Web Client Programming with Perl is the book for you. Wong explains HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) requests and socket calls, then shows how you can use the LWP library for Perl to retrieve Web pages, parse HTML, check whether a server is responding, and more.