Added spoilers so I don't break front page.

I'm working on a backup script for my department's triage list. Unfortunately, in order to pull the information I'm forced to use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox to go through the pages and pull down the information into .html files. Then I take all of the .html pages and put them into a .zip using Archive::Zip. Once this is done I'm using Mail::Outlook to send the .zip out to my group.

All seemed to be working fine for months until I suddenly received write errors when attempting to write to the .zip file. I started working on the code and uncovered a problem where the actual files aren't being put into the .zip, they are going in empty.

Here is the code I'm using with the email portion ripped out:

<Reveal this spoiler or all spoilers in this node or all in this thread>

When I run the above code, one of three things will happen:

1) All of the HTML files are written correctly, the Zip file is created containing all of the files, but all of the files inside the zip are 0 size containing no data.

2) All of the HTML files are written correctly, the Zip file is created containing all of the files with their correct data.

3) I receive the following error:

<Reveal this spoiler>

From what I can determine, situation 1 occurs when I delete all of the old HTML and Zip files then try from scratch. Situations 2 and 3 seemingly occur at random whenever previously created HTML and Zip files are present.

Oddly, when I create a standalone script to go through all of the files using just Archive::Zip I don't seem to have this problem.

use strict;
use warnings;

use Archive::Zip qw( :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS);

my @files = <*>;

my $arch = Archive::Zip->new();
my $file = 'test.zip';

$arch->addFile($_) for (@files);

my $status = $arch->overwriteAs($file);

[download]

I tried duplicating this in the original script without success.

I have a feeling that there is something simple that I'm overlooking, but I've gone through the code and through the Archive::Zip CPAN page quite a few times now without success. My other idea is that the html files aren't being written completely, but the grep seems to indicate otherwise.

Any help is appreciated.

In reply to WWW::Mechanize::Firefox and Archive::Zip Issue by bobross419

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.