Program Requirements
General:
After logging into a web site and traversing a few links,
I need to download a file.
Issue:
Manually, when I get to the file/link and the file/link
is chosen, an 'open-save-cancel' window appears to
which I choose the 'save' button. This is my dilemma
I think. In my program, I get to this last step and
my code does not get the file that the URL points to.

What could I be doing wrong? I get the 'file found'
but no file is downloaded.

Code is as follows: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTTP::Cookies;
#use LWP::Debug qw(+);

my $url = "https://home.host.net/";        
my $username = "myuser";
my $password = "mypassword";
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();

#
# Get URL and login
#
$mech->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new());
$mech->get($url);
$mech->form_name('Form1');                     
$mech->field("txtUsername", $username);        
$mech->field("txtPassword", $password);       
$mech->click();

my $url2 = "https://home.myhost.net/test/Reports/Users/FileToDownload.
+zip";
my $tempfile = "C:/MyLocalFile.zip";

my $contents = $mech->get($url2, ':content_file' => $tempfile );
print "link found\n" if defined $contents;

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Cheers (most humbly)

In reply to download a file from a web page by tony1234567893

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