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This is going to be a royal pain to do in the shell. You're going to get stuck waiting on input from the web service while the web browser is stuck waiting on input for you. Named pipes are prone to this, even used one-way -- using a pair means almost guaranteed deadlock.

If you have Python or Perl, I'd look into writing it in that language instead. You would use a socket directly, avoiding the need for these deadlocks.

Another alternative, which I know you didn't want, would be the expect language. It can work pretty much the way you were expecting - run a program, check if it's got input, check if it's got output, decide what do do with it, move on.

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www::mechanize::gzip

WWW::Mechanize::GZip(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 WWW::Mechanize::GZip(3pm)

NAME

       WWW::Mechanize::GZip - tries to fetch webpages with gzip-compression

VERSION

       Version 0.10

SYNOPSIS

	   use WWW::Mechanize::GZip;

	   my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::GZip->new();
	   my $response = $mech->get( $url );

	   print "x-content-length (before unzip) = ", $response->header('x-content-length');
	   print "content-length (after unzip) = ", $response->header('content-length');

DESCRIPTION

       The WWW::Mechanize::GZip module tries to fetch a URL by requesting gzip-compression from the webserver.

       If the response contains a header with 'Content-Encoding: gzip', it decompresses the response in order to get the original (uncompressed)
       content.

       This module will help to reduce bandwith fetching webpages, if supported by the webeserver. If the webserver does not support gzip-
       compression, no decompression will be made.

       This modules is a direct subclass of WWW::Mechanize and will therefore support any methods provided by WWW::Mechanize.

       The decompression is handled by Compress::Zlib::memGunzip.

       There is a small webform, you can instantly test, whether a webserver supports gzip-compression on a particular URL:
       <http://www.computerhandlung.de/www-mechanize-gzip.htm>

   METHODS
       prepare_request
	 Adds 'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip' to outgoing HTTP-headers before sending.

       send_request
	 Unzips response-body if 'content-encoding' is 'gzip' and corrects 'content-length' to unzipped content-length.

SEE ALSO

       WWW::Mechanize

       Compress::Zlib

AUTHOR

       Peter Giessner "cardb@planet-elektronik.de"

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2007, Peter Giessner "cardb@planet-elektronik.de".  All rights reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.0							    2009-06-24						 WWW::Mechanize::GZip(3pm)

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