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

I am using this to fetch data off a web page: 
$content = get($url);

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Now I want to grab files from this web page and download it to my NT workstation. I know there is a Perl FTP module and was hoping to see real world example of one that works so I can download files from a web site to my NT workstation. I know this involves some sort of Perl FTP module. I just need an example of a FTP that works.

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Re: FTP
by broquaint (Abbot) on May 30, 2002 at 17:07 UTC
    Did you even look at the docs for Net::FTP ? 
    use Net::FTP;

$ftp = Net::FTP->new("some.host.name", Debug => 0);
$ftp->login("anonymous",'-anonymous@');
$ftp->cwd("/pub");
$ftp->get("that.file");
$ftp->quit;

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    Should be as easy as that, or if you're doing anonymous ftp access you could use the LWP::Simple module with even greater ease. 
    use LWP::Simple;

getstore 'ftp://ftp.somedomain.com/somefile.txt',
         'somefile.txt';

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    HTH

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    broquaint

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      hi, i m now having problem on Net::FTP. I'd setup ftp server on IIS on my win2k prof. then while i create a cgi script to get the file, lets say a picture file, i could retrieve that file and put into my own server. if i work on my web system, POST to the cgi script to get he file, failed, give me the error message : cant open the file, permission denied. i m really getting frustrated and dont know what's going wrong :( by the way, i would try on LWP::Simple see if can work.
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Re: FTP Module Suggestions and Uses
by cjf (Parson) on May 30, 2002 at 17:06 UTC

    Net::FTP would be a suitable module. The docs have a few basic examples of how it's used.

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