Net::FTP or unix's wget command or lynx or wwwoffle or...

How about just using lynx -source? short and sweet. Or wget, I've used it to download a file and pictures in it, called from a Perl script daily.

Or use a program which can resume downloads, I think Xdownload or some others can do that. Assuming you are on unix. Or what was said above. Anyway here is a script of mine called dailywget which I've been using for a couple years. 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

# pick up files from the Internet every day and save them somewhere
# with date stamp.

@urlstoget = qw (
  http://your.urls.here
);
$rootdir = "/annex/work/dailywget/dls/";

foreach $u (@urlstoget) {

  $t = scalar(localtime); # Tue Apr  4 02:59:02 JST 2000  

  $date = substr($t,20,4) . "." . 
          substr($t, 4,3) . "." .
          substr($t, 8,2);
  $date =~ s/\s//g;

  $filename = "solution_" . $date . ".html";
  &geturl($u,$filename);

  print "Retrieved $filename.\n";
}

chdir $rootdir;

exit 0;

sub geturl {

  my ($url,$f) = @_;
  chdir $rootdir;
  $cmd = "wget -t 5 -O - $url > $f";
print "Executing $cmd\n";

  @args = ($cmd);  # wget 10 tries, url to stdout

  #foreach $a(@args) {print "-> $a\n";} 
  system(@args);         # you can print several urls on one line

}

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In reply to Re: Having Web Server Download a File by mattr
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