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when i access a url on my server, i actually read a xml file. The URL on my server is as follows http://192.168.4.1:9595/a/b/info The info is a xml file, which is not physically present on the hard disk ( i think this xml is created only when i access this url). Now i want a copy of this xml physically on my harddisk ( say c:\info.xml), so that i can download this xml file. Physically i can go to the url and click on "Save as" and save the file. But i have more than 30 files to be saved. How to do this in perl ? How do i save a URL on my server which displays a XML file to a XML file ?

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Re: how to save a url as a XML file
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 27, 2006 at 11:45 UTC

    Use the getstore function from LWP::Simple.

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Re: how to save a url as a XML file
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 27, 2006 at 11:45 UTC

    You will need to use LWP: 

    use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

my $doc = get 'http://192.168.4.1:9595/a/b/info';

open OUT,'>info.xml' or die "can't open info.xml - $!\n";

print OUT $doc;

close OUT;

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