Hi, On Sat, 18 May 2019 14:02:46 +0200 hwilmer <h...@gc-24.de> wrote:
> On 5/16/19 9:56 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Thu, 16 May 2019 13:13:16 +0200 > > hwilmer <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: > > > >> On 5/11/19 11:07 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > [...] > >>>> So I would want to use something like > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> my $binary_data = `curl -k "https://www.example.com/some.jpg"`; > >>>> > >>> > >>> Perl distinguishes between 8-bit/binary strings and unicode ones. See > >>> https://perldoc.perl.org/perlunitut.html . > >> > >> What kind of string do I get when using backticks like in the above > >> example? > > [...] > > Perhaps use open "-|" with an encoding - see > > https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/binmode.html . > > I didn't know I could do that ... I tried it and it works, too. > Nice. > >>> Note however that you should see > >>> https://perl-begin.org/uses/web-automation/ and use a module instead of > >>> trapping curl.exe's output. Perl has bindings to libcurl too if that is > >>> what you want. > >> > >> First I tried to use WWW::Mechanize, and that failed because it can't > >> deal witch the self-signed certificates the web server is using. I > >> couldn't find anywhere in the documentation how to allow such > >> certificates. Otherwise it seemed to be able to do what I wanted. > >> > > > > See > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47662461/how-to-accept-self-signed-certificates-with- > > > lwpuseragent > > That gives an error: 'Bareword "IO::Socket::SSL::SSL_VERIFY_NONE" not > allowed while "strict subs" in use ...'. But this works: > > my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new( > max_size => $MAX_DOWNLOAD_SIZE, > ssl_opts => { > ssl_verify => 0, > verify_hostname => 0 > } > ); > Great! Thanks for the tip. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ https://is.gd/MQHVF3 - The Atom Text Editor edits a 2,000,001B file The Bajoran scholars have positively identified Benjamin Sisko as The Emissary. They also positively identified the NSA headquarters as The Dungeon. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/NSA/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
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