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Perhaps you should try to use LWP::Simple instead... it will indeed work almost as your made up example. It won't tell you the content-type... but do you really need it? I rarely do.

Use:

get to retrieve the contents of a URL into a variable
getprint to print the contents of URL, without having to pull it into memory first (saves memory if it's huge)
getstore to save the contents of a URL directly to file, without holding it in memory first.

In reply to Re^3: LWP help by bart
in thread LWP help by hnd

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