Re: How do I get rid of the head garbage?

Wei Yuan (wyuan@leland.stanford.edu)
Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:58:37 -0700 (PDT)


> From: Matt Weber <webernet@geocities.com>
> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:51:19 -0400
> 
> I have a search engine, and it uses LWP.  I have it get the web page, store it as a string, then have the string converted to html.  How do I get rid of the head garbage?
> 

When you get the web page, save the content part of your response instead
of the whole thing.

$request = new HTTP::Request('GET', $url, $header);
$response = $ua->request($request);
$response_data = $response->content;
$data=$response_data.as_string;

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