downloading an image from external server returns null always

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

I'm a perl newbie and maybe I'm just doing this incorrectly.

I'm trying to download an image from some url into my server on amazon ec2. I then want to use Imager to load that file up. For the life of me I cannot understand why it is always undef!!. This is the code:

my $data = LWP::Simple::get($the_url);
my $fh = File::Temp->new();
my $filename = $fh->filename;
binmode ($fh);
print $fh $data;
#### img is ALWAYS undef! 
my $img = Imager->new(file => $filename, type => 'png');
close ($fh);
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Am I doing this correctly? Any clues as to what I should be looking for?

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Re: downloading an image from external server returns null always (error checking) by Anonymous Monk on Mar 09, 2013 at 08:47 UTC
Imager shows my $img = Imager->new(file=>$file) or die Imager->errstr(); error checking is important	[reply]
Re: downloading an image from external server returns null always by choroba (Cardinal) on Mar 09, 2013 at 08:42 UTC
I have no experience with Imager. But what about closing the file before creating the Imager object? لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply]
Re: downloading an image from external server returns null always by gideondsouza (Pilgrim) on Mar 09, 2013 at 09:16 UTC
Thanks a ton guys. The or die part saved me life! :D, helped me figure what was going on. I'm still thinking in terms of C# sometimes Here is the end state : http://www.tryperl.com/dominantcolors/ . It's a demo for one of my perl modules	[reply]