remgenesis has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I use the following lines to request a binary file in a website

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent("keep_alive"=>3); my $request = new HTTP::Request('GET', $url); my $response = $ua->request($request)

But it seems activeperl treats the file as a text file instead of a binary one. This is not problem when in linux. But in windows, it added a CR (13) byte before each LF(10) byte. So the binary file was corrupted.

How to avoid this in windows?

Formatting fixed by GrandFather

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Re: Problem with requesting a binary file with activeperl in windows
by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 18, 2005 at 21:58 UTC