I am writing a program that will connect to a FTP server using LWP and d/l a zip compressed file. I am able to fetch the file, save it to disk, uncompress the file using Archive::Zip, and parse the resulting data.

The question I put before you is: How can I skip the save file to disk step and unzip the file directly from the UA's output? I understand that I can get a reference to $ua->content, but I haven't figured out how to pass that to a Archive::Zip object, which appears to only work on files and FHs.

This is the code I have right now, assume all objects were properly started before this snippit:

foreach my $file ( @filelist ) {
    my $FILE_URL = qq ( $URL/$file );
    my $request  = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $FILE_URL );
    my $res      = $ua->request($request, $file);
    print $res->status_line, "\n";
    
    my $zip  = Archive::Zip->new();
    $zip->read ($file);
    my $member = $zip->memberNamed( 'data.dat' );

    my ( $string, $status ) = $member->contents();
    die "error $status" if $status != AZ_OK;
    print $string;
}
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This works, but saves the file to disk on line 4. I want to be able to take $ua->contents and use it for the zip file on line 8, $zip->read ($file).

Any help would be nice.

--SparkeyG
japh

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