Open remote file via http

Question

Is there any perl module like File::Remote, that works over http (read only)? Something like

$magic_module->open( SCRAPE, "http://somesite.com/");
while(<SCRAPE>)
{
  #do something     
}

Answer 1

Yes, of course. You can use LWP::Simple:

use LWP::Simple;
my $content = get $url;

Don't forget to check if the content is not empty:

die "Can't download $url" unless defined $content;

$content will be undef it some error occurred during downloading.

Answer 2

Also you can use File::Fetch module:

File::Fetch
    ->new(uri => 'http://google.com/robots.txt')
    ->fetch(to => \(my $file));
say($file);