I am trying to automate a website download. The website is https address and is a password protected site. I have used lwp in the past to capture html pages, mostly by just copying code and modifying it. This is different. By using liveheaders I found out the url I am looking for is "https://mysite.com/myapp.dll<someotherstuffhere>" When this is typed in a browser window, the download browser window comes up.
Live headers has this "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="myfilename.tgz" Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: application/octet-stream"
Here is the code I used before :

 my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
    $ua->agent("USER/AGENT/IDENTIFICATION");
# make request
    my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $URI);
# authenticate
    $request->authorization_basic($user, $pass);
# accept response
    my $response = $ua->request($request);

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Now I get as far as making the request and it hangs..
I am using ActiveState Perl 5.10.1
Question : can I use lwp to download these files ( I have hundreds of them ) or should I approach this another way?
thanks in advance

In reply to web downloading via lwp by 23penguins

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