Dear monks,

I'm not a religious type of guy but hey i tend to be perl-insh ;).

I'm trying to add Web Dav and SFTP into my cross-platform perl backup program (simplebackup - http://migas.kicks-ass.org/index.php?pag=en.myapps&subpag=simplebackup )

But i'm having problems in SFTP and HTTP::DAV...
any way this post is only related to HTTP::DAV problem.

I can upload/backup/put but i can't make downloads/restore/get to work.
Info:
Windows XP SP2
Using ActiveState Perl 5.8.8
http::dav 0.3.1
libxml perl 0.08
XML-DOM 1.44
XML-RegExp 0.03

My problem... basicly the program blows up with this error

get:http://localhost:8080/webdav/teste.rar -> C:\teste.rar

no element found at line 1, column 0, byte -1 at c:/Perl/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187

Sample Code that i use.

Here is my sample code...
.... (code up including use strict;)
my $special_error_flag = 0;
my $network_connection_p= new HTTP::DAV; # create the web dav object
$network_connection_p-> DebugLevel(2);
$network_connection_p-> credentials( -user=>"someuser",-pass
=> "somepass", -url =>"http://localhost:8080/webdav" );
$network_connection_p-> open( -url=>"http://localhost:8080/webdav") or
$special_error_flag = 1; # attempt to open a connection into the web
dav server
if ( $special_error_flag == 1 ) { # check if we manage to connect
    print "failed connecting into web dav server
}

my $from_file = "http://localhost:8080/webdav/teste.rar";
my $to_file_tmp = "c:\\teste_file.rar";
# with relative paths this also fails
#my $to_file_tmp = "teste_file.rar"; 
if ( !$network_connection-> get( -url=>"$from_file", -to=>"$to_file_tm
+p" ) ) {
   print "download failed\n";
}
else {
   print "download worked\n";
}

[download]

Any help would be greatefull !

Migas - Miguel

In reply to Using HTTP::DAV by migas

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