I am trying to download a file every 45 minutes from a site. It is a .kmz file which is an overlay you can open in google earth to view. Problem is that the method I am using seems to now work correctly,but gives me a corrupted file. Any help here is my code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
use strict; 
use LWP; 
use WWW::Mechanize; 
my $now_string = localtime; 
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(); 
my $filename = join('_', split(/\W+/, $now_string, -1)); 
$mech->credentials( '*********' , '***********'); 
$mech->get('http://datawww2.wxc.com/kml/echo/MESH_Max_180min/') or die
+ "Error: failed to load the web page"; 
#print $mech->response()->content(); 
$mech->follow_link(n => 8) or die "Error: failed to download content";
+ 
$mech->save_content("$filename.kmz");

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I am wondering if this is an okay way to obtain those types of files or not? I know the file is corrupted because when I click the link myself and download the file it works fine. The file is a kmz file which is basically an image overlay of weather that can be used on google earth or other web maps. When I open them up in notepad they are very jarbled symbols but look relatively the same. i dont know about the unicode flavor.

In reply to Trouble downloading .KMZ files with www-mechanize by cbouwkamp

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