Dear Monks, I'm using ActivePerl on WinXP SP2 platform. The following simple code:

  $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET,$url);
  $res = $ua->request($req);
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used to download a file from the remote web server. The file is really text, but the server transmits it as application/zip (so browser users can download it instead of opening in their browsers). Everything goes OK except one thing : the download is very slow, about 1..2Kbits/second. Download of the same file from the same server via IE, Opera, or download manager runs much (~20..100 times) faster. CPU usage is less then 1 per cent. This doesn't depend upon the file's size. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.