stream to STDIN from an external HTTP URL

Using a url as the file

[coopster]

Is it possible to stream to STDIN from a URL? Relative thread that prompts me to ask this question:
Using Exec Function to Dump Dump Database [webmasterworld.com]

[jtara]

Sure, just pipe from wget.

[coopster]

Oh man, what a "Duh." moment. I cannot believe ... nevermind. Thanks for bringing me back to the obvious, jtara.

[phranque]

you can use lwp-request if you need the html stream...