Hello Perl Monks!!

I'm looking for a way to download a file that is auto-generated upon a request. As such, the path to it is not always known.

Via Firefox, I hit a link (that is static and always known) and once the file is ready for download the browser pops a window saying "What should Firefox do with this file?". Choose "Save File" hit "OK" and I'm done.

I'd like to automate this process. I bet (or should I say hope) that there is a neat Perl module that is waiting for me to grab it, but I just can't find it.

To be more concrete, it's a spreadsheet from "Google finance" that I'm trying to download: "http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=NASDAQ:FFIV&output=csv"

Please help, Thanks in advance,

Matthew.S.

In reply to Downloading a auto-generated file. by Matthew.S

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