Ahoy kansaschuck!
LWP::Simple is an extremely useful module and I highly recommend using it for your http related needs. To retrieve a file from a remote server, the following code would work well:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
my $url = '';
my $file = '';
my $resp = '';
print 'Please enter a URL: ';
chomp( $url = <STDIN> );
print 'Please enter a filename in which to store the data: ';
chomp( $file = <STDIN> );
# We don't want to overwrite a file that already exists so using the '
+-e' essentially asks: Does a file of this name
# already exist? If so, the message is displayed and the program exits
+.
if( -e $file ) {
die "Sorry. That filename already exists.\n";
}
# The 'getstore' function returns an http response code e.g. 200, 404,
+ etc.
# The syntax says: Store the data obtained from '$url' in '$file'.
$resp = getstore( $url, $file );
exit;
Hope this helps,
~Katie
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