How to read from URL line-wise?

Question

I'm looking for the "moral equivalent" of the (fictitious) openremote below:

my $handle = openremote( 'http://some.domain.org/huge.tsv' ) or die $!;
while ( <$handle> ) {
    chomp;
    # etc.
    # do stuff with $_
}
close $handle;

IOW, I'm looking for a way to open a read handle to a remote file so that I can read from it line-by-line. (Typically this file will be larger than I want to read entirely into memory. This means that solutions based on stuffing the value returned by LWP::Simple::get (for example) into an IO::String are not suitable.)

I'm sure this is really basic stuff, but I have not been able to find it after a lot of searching.

Answer 1

Here's a "solution" much like the other responses but it cheats a bit by using IO::All

use IO::All ;
my $http_io = io->http("http://some.domain.org/huge.tsv");

while (my $line = $http_io->getline || $http_io->getline) {
   print $line;
}

After you have an object with io->http you can use IO methods to look at it (like getline() etc.).

Cheers.