I need to write a shell script which passes URL(say:localhost:80) and get the content(say "Hello world"),hostname,date and time stamp to test different components (say apcahe web server). I need to capture all this(different urls output) information and put it in a file. It seems I need to capture response page headers information.
Do I need to use arrays to put data into a file.

Really appreciate If any one could give shell script for this or how to write shell
program for this functionality.

Thanks
Rag

Does

lynx --source url > url.txt

do what you need?

Following is the requirement..

1. Passing url as parameter and get the following values:a). content b). host name c). date and time stamp. Store these values in a file.

Is it possible to get this info? if so could you pl. give me the syntax for the above functionality

Can I use URL as a parameter in the shell script? If so, can I get the information like
hostname, date and time stamp?
Thanks for your help

Apache keeps a log of every web page hit, the host originating IP address, time and date, which page was hit, etc. by default.

There are a number of free programs designed to parse these log files and output them in a more readable format, with charts, etc.