Command Line http request

[MacKenzie Smith]

> I would like to set up a small script that would automatically 
> request each document in the directory through http.  My 
> question is how do I communicate to a Web server from a
> UNIX command line.  

If you're in the UNIX environment, then another approach to this
(other than Expect) would be to call the lynx browser from your script 
with the -s option to get back the source of the page you've requested. 
That's probably the easiest thing to do...

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