Python and remote sensing

[Siegfried Gonzi]

Hi,


a technician of us asked me whether it is possible to do the following:


Starting a script on Unix at lets say 2 am and calling a remote site 
(http://www.whatever...) and that site should become passively processed 
(the site holds 41 observing stations). Is it possible to start a remote 
script (automatically) connect to a http page and retrieve information 
from that html-page?

I answerd Perl or Python can do the job. But I am not sure whether that 
is correct.

I am sure the above topic has been asked 1000 times. Or is there a tool 
or program availabe which can do the job better?; I mean our technican 
has never heard of Python and I am not interested to make web based (put 
in the right term here) programming or the like.

If Python can do it - okay; if not please say so (if Python is dead - 
okay; if Python lives - okay)!


Thanks,
S. Gonzi