Hi Monks!

All I am trying to do is to go to an specific image url and save a copy of it to a local directory, and my code doesn't work. Is there a easier way of doing that? Here is some of my code, may be someone could show me where I am doing something wrong.

...
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::TokeParser;
use CGI::Carp;

my ($image, $image_dir, $image_url, $new_image);

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

$image_dir = "../../store_here";

# $image should contain GIF data after this.
$image_url = "http://www.dimages/image_sample.gif" unless $url =~ m{^h
+ttp://};
$image = get($image_url) || '';

######
# Save copy of image
open(OUTPUT_IMG_FILE, ">$image_dir") || die "Unable to open $image_dir
+: $!";
binmode(OUTPUT_IMG_FILE);
print OUTPUT_IMG_FILE $image;
close(OUTPUT_IMG_FILE);
######

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Thanks a lot!!!!

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