use LWP::Simple;
use DBI;

$url     = "http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_ir_west.gif";
$file    = "/usr/home/mhearse/weather_images/sat_ir_west.gif";
$newfile = "/usr/home/mhearse/weather_images/latest.gif";
($min, $hour, $day, $month, $year) = (localtime)[1,2,3,4,5];
$image_name = "$month-$day-$year-$hour:$min";
getstore($url, $file);

if (-s $file != -s $newfile) {
   rename $file, $newfile;
   $img_data = getFile($newfile);
   $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:weather_images",
             "user", "********")
             or die("Error! $!\nAborting");
   $sql = qq(INSERT INTO gw_ir
                (image_name, image_file)
                 VALUES ("$image_name", "$image_file"));
   $sth   = $dbh->prepare($sql);
   $sth->execute or die("\nError executing SQL statement! $DBI::errstr");
   $dbh->disconnect;
} else {
   print "file is current\n";
}

sub getFile {
  my($file) = @_;
  my $fh;
  unless (open $fh, "<", $file) {
    die "Error opening $file : $!\n";
  }
  my $data;
  { local $/ = undef; $data = <$fh>; }
  close $fh;
  return $data;
}