Presumably the REASON you want to do this is so you can report how the download is going. If this is what you want to do you will find it easier just to do it with a socket. Say you want something via http 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use IO::Socket::INET;
my $debug = 1;
my $get = 'http://www.mysite.com/index.html';
my ( $domain, $stuff ) = $get =~ m!http://([^/]+)(.*)$!;

$sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(   PeerAddr => $domain,
                                 PeerPort => 80,
                                 Proto    => 'tcp');
die "No socket" unless $sock;
print "Got sock\n";

my ( $content, $buffer );
print $sock "HEAD $get HTTP/1.0\015\012\015\012";
$content .= $buffer while ( read ( $sock, $buffer, 1024 ) );
print $content if $debug;
die $content unless $content =~ m/200 OK/;
my ($content_length) = $content =~ m/^Content-Length:\s*(\d+)/m;
print "Content-Length: $content_length\n" if $debug;

$content = '';
$sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(   PeerAddr => $domain,
                                 PeerPort => 80,
                                 Proto    => 'tcp');
binmode $sock;
print $sock "GET $get HTTP/1.0\015\012\015\012";
my $found_crlf = 0;
while ( read ( $sock, $buffer, 1024 ) ) {
    $content .= $buffer;
    # we need to chop off the header at the first CRLFCRLF
    if ( ! $found_crlf and index($content, "\015\012\015\012") > 0 ) {
        $content = substr $content, (index $content, "\015\012\015\012
+") + 4;
        $found_crlf = 1;
    }
   printf "Got %.2f%\n", ( 100* length($content)/$content_length ) if 
+$debug;
}
print $content if $debug;

__DATA__
Got sock
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 13:07:35 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) PHP/4.1.2
Last-Modified: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:08:19 GMT
ETag: "1d0f53-a36-3e275783"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2614
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
X-Pad: avoid browser bug
Content-Length: 2614

Got 28.27%
Got 67.44%
Got 100.00%
<html>
<head>
[blah]

[download]

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Capture wget progress bar by tachyon
in thread Capture wget progress bar by rendler

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