Somebody asked on the Chatterbox on how one can use LWP::Simple to retrieve an URL, and get an indication on how progress is going. At first I thought of hacking a copy of LWP::Simple's getstore(), but that even isn't necessary: just pass a sub reference for the $file parameter. Here's just an example.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use LWP::Simple;
use Fatal 'open';
open HTML, ">monastery_gates.html";
my $total = 0;
print STDERR "\nconnecting...";
getstore "http://www.perlmonks.org", sub {
    my($chunk) = @_;
    print STDERR "\r", " " x 20 unless $total;
    $total += length $chunk;
    print STDERR "\r$total bytes";
    print HTML $chunk;
};
print STDERR "\n";

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In reply to Using LWP::Simple with a callback (progress indicator) by bart

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