How do I create a new/unique file name for each instance the script is ran (in reality probably only one person would use this script once, but I'm trying to learn here!)? How do I do it safely?

Try to use File::Temp for creation of a temporary file safely.

How can I tell the script to erase the file if it isn't downloaded within, say, ten minutes (to keep some cracker from filling the server with huge .zip files just for kicks)?

You can add in your download script a something like this: 

sub erase_files {
    my $period = 10;
    opendir(DIR, '/your/tmp/dir') or die $!;
    my @files = grep {!(/^\./) && /\.zip$/} readdir(DIR);
    close DIR;
    my $now = localtime;
    for my $file (@files) {
        my $ftime = (stat($file))[9];
        if(($now - $ftime) > $period*3600) { unlink $file }
    }
}

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In reply to Re: Non-Duplicate File Names, Security, and Self Cleaning by nite_man
in thread Non-Duplicate File Names, Security, and Self Cleaning by Petras

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