All, Here is my code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua;
my $req;
my $res;

$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->agent("AgentName/0.1 " . $ua->agent);

#REQUEST

$req = HTTP::Request->new(GET =>'http://SOMEURLHERE');

#PASS REQUEST

$res = $ua->request($req);

#GET RESULTS


if($res->is_success)
{
   print $res->content;
}
else
{
   print "No response\n";
   print $res->status_line . "\n";
}

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Now the above code will print out just fine. However, if I try to add something like the following into the above code: 

open(MYFILE, '/tmp/data.txt');
print MYFILE $res->content;
close(MYFILE);

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Or if I first assign the response data to a scalar and then do it: 

my $returnData = $res->content;
open(MYFILE, '/tmp/data.txt');
print MYFILE $returnData;
close(MYFILE);

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The file "/tmp/data.txt" is an empty file (although I didn't check it with "ls -l" which I probably should have). I just did a "cat" on the file and it was blank. I am also pretty sure that the popen command is not affecting things because if I print out a simple string from the same Perl script, that gets captured with popen. It has something to do with this HTTP::Response module.

In reply to Re^2: Cannot access HTTP::Response content properly by URAvgDeveloper101
in thread Cannot access HTTP::Response content properly by URAvgDeveloper101

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