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Accessing from outside of the server

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adni18

10:02 pm on Oct 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Is it possible to access a file outside of a server? (Like [someoneelsessite.com...]

cyberws

5:02 pm on Oct 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Depending on what you are trying to do u can either curl or LWP::Simple package.

upside

1:08 am on Oct 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I just can't puzzle out what you mean. What exactly do you mean by "outside of the server"? What are you trying to accomplish?

adni18

11:34 am on Oct 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I need to access an image hosted on a different server so that my server can resize the image and save it on my server.

moltar

3:57 pm on Oct 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

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  1. Use LWP::Simple [search.cpan.org] to fetch the image from the server
  2. Save the image on the local machine
  3. Use Image::Size [search.cpan.org] to resize the image