hi-

I am trying to save a image from a website by using the LWP Simple get store function. However, when being saved the image file is saved in ASCII format and not BINARY, leaving the picture to be displayed wrong. I researched on how I can do this and I think it invovles using binmode??

previous code: 
my $image_name = "heybuddy.jpg";
my $image_full = "/home/temp/$image_name"; #image full path to the tem
+p file
my $status = getstore($video_src, $image_full); #uses getstore to retr
+ieve image and to be stored in the temp path.
die "Error $status on $video_src" unless is_success($status);

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The above code correctly stores the file retrieved from the website, but now I need to convert the temp file to a binary file and store it in my image dir and not temp dir.

So I tried adding this right below the above coding: 
open(IN, ">/home/images/$image_name") or die "Can't open: $!";        
+     
binmode IN;
    while (<$image_full>) {
    print IN;
    }
    close IN or die "Can't close: $!";
}

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This code does save the image name to my image directory (home/images) but it comes out to 0 kilobytes.
Ahhhh any help will be appreciated.

tanger

In reply to LWP Simple - getstore function by tanger

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