pcplantdb

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Sean Maley wrote:

> We keep the symbol from the usda, for example, then
> periodically request information.  This work is
> scalable if we coordinate hosts.

Does this mean that someone using PIW could request info that we don't have 
but USDA does
and an on-the-fly search would occur and results would be returned to that 
user white they were still at PIW/
permaculture.info or would they be bounced to the USDA plants db in another 
browser window?
> For instance:
> Start with:
> http://plants.usda.gov/Data/statdist/plantlst.txt
>
> Then you have:
> http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=SYMBOL
> or the more usable printable version:
> http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=OCBA&mode=Print&photoID=ocba_001_ahp.tif

Amazing. They have done a good job.

> Write a program starting with this
>
> use LWP;
> use LWP::Protocol::http;
> use URI::Escape;

This is very impressive. Could PIW actually use this procedure?
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