how to get the content from a URL?

about FORM

[msgsbox]

I need to feed the content of a URL for example, 'http://www.sample.com/some.xml', into a form.

What I have done now is that,
1. open 'http://www.sample.com/some.xml' in a browser.
2. copy and paste the content of that page (or say content of some.xml) into a textarea.

Question:
Can I directly get content from a URL? Like below,
<input type="uri" name="xmlfile" size = "60">

Thanks.

[maximillianos]

You could probably do it with AJAX. Basically have javascript make a call to retrieve the XML data, and then move/dump it into the textarea.

[perl_diver]

look into modules like LWP and WWW::Mechanize or try the AJAX suggestion.

[phranque]

if you are doing this client side, search on "javascript xml http request" for examples.
if you are doing this server side, search on "perl lwp request" for examples.

check out LWP::Simple - it might be the way to go.