Hello Monks,

I thought I would try something easy, namely using perl to download a file, and I have yet to achieve it. The page in question is found on google's public download site, so there isn't a question of permissions: useful utilities.

I've tried it a few different ways and even another syntax, and what I get with the download is the html for the page itself, which I won't show, but it definitely is the same as when you go to the above site and select "view page source."

use LWP::Simple;
my $url = 'https://code.google.com/archive/p/dotnetperls-controls/down
+loads/enable1.txt';
my $file = 'a.txt';

getstore($url, $file);

[download]

Fishing for tips,

In reply to downloading a file on a page with javascript by Aldebaran

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