Downloading a file from Url in perl

bratieres · 02-28-2006, 11:37 AM

Hi,

We have to download a file from a given URL that is a direct link to the file on the web server. We know how to download via FTP if it were an FTP server (Net::FTP) but we do not know how to do this on an HTTP server.

Any hint would be appreciated.

J.Bratières

Antonius_Block · 02-28-2006, 12:50 PM

Use either the LWP or LWP::Simple modules. They are very easy to use.

http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-...805/lib/LWP.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-.../LWP/Simple.pm

bratieres · 03-01-2006, 12:49 AM

Thanks a lot.