LWP Examples
Now that we've seen the LWP API, we'll look at some practical examples that use it.
Fetching a List of RFCs
The Internet FAQ Consortium (http://www.faqs.org) maintains a Web server that archives a large number of useful Internet documents, including Usenet FAQs and IETF RFCs. Our first example is a small command-line tool to fetch a list of RFCs by their numbers.
The RFC archive at http://www.faqs.org follows a predictable pattern. To view RFC 1028, for example, we would fetch the URL http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1028.html. The returned HTML document is a minimally marked-up version of the original text-only RFC. The FAQ Consortium adds an image and a few links to the top and bottom. In addition, every reference to another RFC becomes ...
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