This isn't so much a problem, as a request for comments. Comments on this code, to be precise. It gets pictures or webpages, and saves pictures to $save_path or returns the body of webpages. Yeah, and it's strict and -w compatible, although it might not be -w compatible under all circumstances. 
sub get_object
    {
    my($agent, $url, $referer, $save_path);    # args: LWP::UserAgent,
+ url to get, (optional) referer to grab that url with, (optional) pat
+h to save it to 
    my($request, $response, $content);        # http stuff
    
    $agent     = shift();
    $url       = shift();
    $referer   = shift();
    $save_path = shift();
    
    $request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', $url);
    $request->referer($referer) if ($referer);    # if referer param i
+s specified set it as the referer header
    
    $save_path ? print("Getting picture $url...") : print("Getting inf
+o from $url\n");
    
    $response = $agent->request($request);
    $content = $response->content();
    return($content) unless ($save_path);    # if we're not saving it,
+ return the html
    
    # now save it
    
    if (length($content) >= 5120)        # check for a dud picture
        {
        open(OUT, ">$save_path") or die("Couldn\'t open picturefile to
+ save: $!");
        binmode(OUT);        # if we're saving it it must be a picture
+, therefore binary
        
        print(OUT $content);
        
        close(OUT);
        return(1);
        }
    else
        {
        print("Picture was a dud.");
        return(0);
        }
    }

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It assumes that valid pictures aren't going to be under 5KB, reckless perhaps, but it suffices for the job. I just know you're gonna cuss that part to pieces, so...fire away! I was also thinking maybe I should check for binary and text data in $content, but I'm not quite sure how to do that without first writing to file and using filetest. Okay, flame away!

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