Roboticus - I am not on a linux machine. Does that mean WWW::Mechanize is going to be useless to me?

I managed to write some small code but I really do not know which way to go with it. Sadly, I am completely unfamiliar with mechanize so this is what I have come up with:

use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $url = "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Blogscope-log
+o-simple.jpg";
#my $cookie_jar;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get($url);

$mech->success() or die "Can't fetch the Requested page";
my $val = $mech->content;
print $val;

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$val ends up being that same binary nonsense. I took a look at the Image function but it looks like that just scrapes the current page and finds all images and assigns them to an array - I am actually providing a link to the image itself so it doesn't look like that would work.

Thanks again!

In reply to Re^4: Difficulty with using LWP to display JPEG by Aquilae
in thread Difficulty with using LWP to display JPEG by Aquilae

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