getWWW URL -- obtain the contents of the web page, together with the http headers, at the address given by
URL, from an http server.
getWWW(URL,TEXT) -- obtain the contents of the web page addressed by
URL from an http server, using the POST method, provided with
TEXT.
This doesn't work under Solaris because Sun doesn't provide sockets or name service to statically linked programs like this one.
Accessing a secure web site (whose URL begins with
https:) depends on your having installed
openssl on your system.