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khippy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am working on a kind of photo album, where you have a browser admin page to put a picture and text in.
There shall be two possibities to define the picture source. One is upload from your computer, this working fine, so far. The other one shall be an URL to get a picture from the internet. I want to use LWP to keep perlish :) and there is one problem:

There is http or ftp download possible, how do I get LWP only to download images and no other mimetypes?

If you want to look to a snippet of the running code, take a look at my scratchpad at my homenode.
As this code is running at linux I could do a system call with file to proove it is an image *after* having downloaded the file. But this is awful, isn't it?

adTHANXvance
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