feasibility of opening a website link from unix and get a response in the form of xml or html

Shell Programming and Scripting
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i just wanted to know whether is it possible to open a website link and get a response in the form of xml or html format...
the website is of local network...
for example something like this

 
wget http://blahblah.samplesite.com/blachblahcblach/User/jsp/ShowPerson.jsp?empid=123456

after a similiar stament is executed the output should give the respose got from opening the link in internet explorer.... i know this question might sound stupid but i just wanted to know since i dont know what is unix capable of... i just know basic shell scripting.... any help would be deeply appreciated....

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I don't know what you really want to do, but I used to use curl to GET dan POST data from or to an url.

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hmmm how to use curl... i am pretty much novice in all these... all i want to achieve is access a local network site

http://blahblah.samplesite.com/blach...p?empid=123456

which is a website available only to locallly connected PC and not global website... and when i query this the response in shell prompt should be the the output which we get when we use same link in web browser.... but ofcourse in unix it should come in string xml or html format... hope you understood what i want to achieve... i dont know whether its possible or not either...

PS: we need to use proxy to open this website in webpage using internet explorer...