I'm scraping a site with WWW:Mechanize and it works properly. However, one of the links I get produces a zip file. I save with content. When I later try to unzip the file, unzip complains that the file is corrupt.

I tried $mech->save_content(), print to file with binmode and various encoding options on print. Setting encoding to utf8 eliminates a "Wide character" error. But, problem still remains.

I'm using WWWW::Mechanize because it's a secure site with login. It sets a bunch of cookies ann session ids, so using or switching to a different utility for this transaction is not possible.

Any guidance or direction would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Jack

UPDATE
It works properly from a browser. 

Here are file listings of the same file: 
-rw-r--r-- 1 jack3 jack3 337991 2009-03-19 23:48 auto_20090318_0610.zi
+p
-rw-r--r-- 1 jack3 jack3 631747 2009-03-20 00:03 report.zip

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Jack

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