>system("wget http://www.slashdot.org");
>
> But without being so clunky or gross. This is incidentally for the
>Haiku generation challenge posted at /. ;-) The URL is
>
>http://www.dotcomma.org/challenges/challenge.php?id=1
>
Creating a pipe, then forking and execing and reading from
the pipe is the best way I know.
If I were you, I'd just use python :-)
-Arun