Re: Copy image from one web server to another

[Chris Devers]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Nicolay A. Vasiliev wrote:
I need to be adviced how to implement the subject. I have URL of an 
image and I need to copy this to another web-server. I tried to make 
it with ImageMagick, but I got an error opening the file by URL.

Which way could more correct to produce such operation?
The standard library for writing web clients -- which, in this context, 
your web server is acting as -- is LWP. The LWP::Simple module may be 
the easiest way to do this:

       use LWP::Simple;
       $image = get("http://www.sample.url/images/sample.jpg";);
       die "Couldn't get it!" unless defined $image;
At that point, just write the contents of $image to a file.
See the LWP::Simple perldoc for more info, or the LWP docs:
     <http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/lib/LWP/Simple.pm>
Or see the e-book _Web Client Programming with Perl_ by Clinton Wong:
     <http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/>
It's a bit old, but still covers the basics.

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Chris Devers
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