Works for me when I remove the leading whitespace from $url ;-)

Update (2nd question - see below): Change destination filename.

Seems, that the module did not provide a setter-method to change the output_file()? I'll notify the author later...

This monkeypatch should correct that: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Fetch;

my $url="http://www.ekey.net/downloads-475?download=2132cbe2-2fb1-eeff
+-583c-50a39b6aba6c&name=v2_ITA_12-Seiter_Programm_1207_web$
print "Downloading $url\n";
my $ff = File::Fetch->new(uri => $url);


{ #-- ugly patch
package File::Fetch;

  print "PATCHED: ", __PACKAGE__, " version $VERSION!\n";   #-- patche
+d line#0 

  sub output_file {
    my $self = shift;
    my $file = $self->file;

    $self->{_out} = $_[0] if $_[0];                         #-- patche
+d line#1
    return $self->{_out} if $self->{_out};                  #-- patche
+d line#2 

    $file =~ s/\?.*$//g;

    $file ||= $self->file_default;

    return $file;
  }

}
package main;


print "Before: ", $ff->output_file,"\n";

$ff->output_file("i-probably-violate-terms-of-use.pdf");  #-- or extra
+ct name from URI using a regex

print "After : ", $ff->output_file,"\n";

my $where = $ff->fetch( to => "ekey corpus" ) or  $ff->error;

[download]
Result: 
...
PATCHED: File::Fetch version 0.48!
Before: downloads-475
After : i-probably-violate-terms-of-use.pdf
...

[download]
Fixing this problem by use of parent is left as an exercise to the AM...

In reply to Re: Fetch Problem uri by Perlbotics
in thread Fetch Problem uri by Anonymous Monk

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