How do I write a Perl script to use curl to process a URL?

Question

I have a very simple task. I have a crontab that will run a script every hour. The script is meant to simply process a URL.

This is what I have. It doesn\'t work. I get

Answer 1

You can either use curl via backticks

my $curl=`curl http://whatever`

or you can use WWW::Curl.