Bravo! I am in ... but I need to traverse many links over multiple pages to get to the one that points to the file I want to download. Would follow_link() be the answer?
Cheers!! ________________________________ From: Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com> To: Tony Esposito <tony1234567...@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: Beginners Perl <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Tue, 4 May, 2010 11:59:53 Subject: Re: Perl LWP::Simple Tony Esposito wrote: > Cheers! > > New to LWP and downloading file/copying file from Web to local box. Had a go > at it and failed horribly... On Solaris 10 with Perl 5.10. > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; > use LWP::Simple qw($ua get); > my $webpage ="https://www.mywebpage.com/Documents.zip";; > $ua->timeout(20); > my $content = get $webpage or die "Page timed out...$!\n"; if (defined > $content) { > open FILE,"> Documents.zip" or die "Can't create file"; > binmode FILE; print FILE $content; close FILE; > } else { > print "LWP get() failed\n"; > } > exit; > > Don't see where I authenticate -- login and password, that is. Get system > timed out as an error. Any help would be grateful. > > > I suggest you use WWW::Mechanize instead. http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.62/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm It is design for stateful websites, that is, those with logins. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy. Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
