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Re: LWP to download images, how to let LWP decide, wether it is an image or not?

by Beatnik (Parson)
on Oct 20, 2001 at 03:37 UTC ( [id://120175]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to LWP to download images, how to let LWP decide, wether it is an image or not?

What about something like...
if ($link =~ /(jpe?g|gif|png)$/i) { ...

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Beatnik
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Re: Re: LWP to download images, how to let LWP decide, wether it is an image or not?
by IndyZ (Friar) on Oct 20, 2001 at 07:39 UTC
    That's a good effort, but it will not work in all cases. Many sites (photoisland, yahoo photos) use a CGI to pull images out of a database. Although these files do not have the correct extension, they still return a valid image MIME type. Plus, I could fool your pattern like this: http://www.perlmonks.org/?jpg. That probably wouldn't do anything bad, other than a broken image, but still.

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