I hate to break it to you, but that file is compressed with gzip. Netscape, IE, and even Lynx, it seems, will ungzip it for you automatically:
% lynx --source 'http://cpaweb01.planetarion.com/botfiles/galaxy_listing.gz' | less
So it looks like it is a text file, but it is in fact compressed. Hence, the .gz extension, which is usually a dead giveaway. This means that use of LWP::Simple is going to cause trouble. This is because you will get the raw GZIP file. What I did was: 
use LWP::Simple;

$content = get ("http://cpaweb01.planetarion.com/botfiles/galaxy_listi
+ng.gz");

print $content;

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You can do something like:
% perl test_get | gunzip -dc | less
A better solution would be to use the gzip compression library module, or use it externally through backticks or a pipe call.

In reply to Re: Retrieving a file on the web (NOT so easy) by tadman
in thread Retrieving a file on the web (NOT so easy) by Scott203

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