Re: lynx-dev Lynx Question

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Ian Whitfield wrote:

> I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, if it
> isn't
> i'm sorry.
> 
> I'm trying to run lynx from within a perl script but get an error back
> when i try to return a url which includes the '?' character.
> 
> The Script is -
> 
> #!/opt/bin/perl
> 
> $SITELIST =
> "www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/scripts/edsection.asp?section=Local+sports";
> 
> open(SITE, $SITELIST);

Not that I'm a perl expert, but that looks completely bogus to me - 
$SITELIST is not the name of a file.

Use full URLs where you can, i.e. "http://www.this...";, otherwise you
are unnecessarily making lynx guess what you mean.

   Klaus