Hi Monks,

I'm using LWP::UserAgent on Windows XP to download some web pages. I'm able to download the content, but most of the whitespace gets removed so that most of the HTML appears on one line. I've tried this using ActiveState Perl and using Perl on cygwin with the same results in both cases. However, when I run the script under OS X Leopard the whitespace is preserved. Is there some basic setting that I'm missing in order to preserve the whitespace under Windows? A sample of some test code is below. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::UserAgent;

my $url = "http://www.somesite.com/";
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->timeout(20);
my $res = $ua->request(HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url));
print $res->content;

[download]

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim

In reply to LWP on Windows: whitespace removed from HTML by Anonymous Monk

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