Hi, I am trying to write a program which will retrieve a file of any format from a website. I can retrieve it, but the file will not open properly (error: Can't determine type).

Apparently I get this, because when I retrieve the file, it has an HTTP header. I found the pattern to remove the header, but I am not sure as to how to put it down in code.

For example when dealing with a GIF, I need to copy everything starting with GIF89a. I am not sure how to tell PERL to ignore everything before it.

btw, if you cant tell, heh, I just started using PERL two days ago.

Thanks for the help in advance!

PS This is what I have for code so far,

$socket->send("GET $1 HTTP/1.1\n");
$socket->send("HOST: www.dilbert.com\n");
$socket->send("\n");

#get response

#$request = <$socket>;

open(FILE1, ">gift_test.gif");

# write to file

while ($request = <$socket> && ($request =~ (whatever reg_ex goes here))
{
print FILE1 $request;
}

close (FILE1);

In reply to Help with Header stripping by Traku

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