I am a newbie so please excuse my mistakes.

I am trying to save the contents of a link and have been unsuccesfull so far. I have tried to use WWW::Mechanize and it works well when the target of the link is a html page but NOT when it is a data page.

eg:
use LWP::Simple;
getstore("http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=AMZN&d=8&e=30&f=2004&g=d&a=4&b=16&c=1997&a mp;ignore=.csv","tmp.txt");

Does not store the contents of the link. Similarly this did not save the link:

use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$tempfile="tmp.txt";
$mech->agent_alias( 'Windows IE 6' );
$url="http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=AMZN&d=8&e=30&f=2004&g=d&a=4&b=16&c=1997&i gnore=.csv"; $mech->get( $url,":content_file"=>$tempfile );

When viewed in a browser , If I click the link I am presented with a "save as" window. Does anyone know How I can resolve this problem?

Thanks

In reply to Saving contents of a Target Link. by MiniMe

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