Good day Monks. I am trying to write a script that will use WWW::Mechanize or one of its parent classes to fetch a binary file and write it directly to disk on a windoze system. I can write the file in question (an .exe) as follows:
$response = mech->get($url);
open(OUT,">$filename");
binmode $filename;
print OUT $response->content;
close OUT;

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But for large files this takes a lot of memory, so I'd like to dump the file straight to disk.

LWP::UserAgent, which is inherited by Mech, has a method called mirror, that is used thus 

$mech->mirror($url,$filename);

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It seems from the docs like this should do the trick but when I try it with the same $url and $filename as in the above working example, nothing happens. Will this method not work for binary files on windoze? Is there some other approach I should use?

TIA...

Steve

In reply to WWW::Mechanize write directly to file? by cormanaz

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