HTTP
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Print a URL's content.
Erlang
Synchronous
-module(main). -export([main/1]). main([Url|[]]) -> inets:start(), case http:request(Url) of {ok, {_V, _H, Body}} -> io:fwrite("~p~n",[Body]); {error, Res} -> io:fwrite("~p~n", Res) end.
Asynchronous
-module(main). -export([main/1]). main([Url|[]]) -> inets:start(), http:request(get, {Url, [] }, [], [{sync, false}]), receive {http, {_ReqId, Res}} -> io:fwrite("~p~n",[Res]); _Any -> io:fwrite("Error: ~p~n",[_Any]) after 10000 -> io:fwrite("Timed out.~n",[]) end.
Using it
|escript ./req.erl http://www.rosettacode.org
Perl
<perl>using LWP::Simple; print get("http://www.rosettacode.org");</perl>
PHP
<php>print(file_get_contents("http://www.rosettacode.org"));</php>
Python
<python>import urllib print urllib.urlopen("http://www.rosettacode.org").read()</python>