use strict;
use LWP;

my $url = 'ftp://path/to/a/greatbigfile';

my $agent = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
$agent->proxy('ftp' => 'http://our.proxy.server:8080');

my $response = $agent->request($request);
$response->is_success or die "$url: ", $response->message,"\n";

open(MYOUT, ">/home/greatbigfile.") or die "No open? $!";
print MYOUT $response->content;
close(MYOUT);

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Nothing wrong with the code per se--it works fine on itty bitty files--but it fails like this: 

ftp://path/to/a/greatbigfile: Out of memory during "large" request for
+ 33558528 bytes, total sbrk() is 37230796 bytes

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on a file of nearly 40 meg. Is there any way to pull the file in chunks? I don't find it in the documentation.

adamsj

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