HTTP::Response(s)

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

Right: I do an LWP request() and get an HTTP::Response, which I'd like to be in plaintext. But, shock horror, it isn't! As I found to my horror when attempting to write a downloaded HTML file to a file, it came out as a hash reference or something similarly terrifying. How can I turn it into plaintext?

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Re: HTTP::Response(s) by tomhukins (Curate) on Apr 12, 2001 at 18:18 UTC
Before posting here, read the documentation for the module(s) you're using. In this case, read up on HTTP::Response. You'll see that you can use `headers_as_string` or `content`, depending on exactly what you want to achieve.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: HTTP::Response(s) by Asim (Hermit) on Apr 12, 2001 at 18:29 UTC
use `$response->as_string()` method (untested code slice): `$useragent = LWP::UserAgent->new; $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET, $url); $response = $useragent->request($request); $response_text = $response->as_string(); print $response_text;` [download] Check out the docs on HTTP::Response for more info. ----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: HTTP::Response(s) by suaveant (Parson) on Apr 12, 2001 at 18:16 UTC
I seem to recall from my using of LWP long ago, that the text is in the hash somewhere, such as _content or something like that... Update ahh $res->content holds it, it looks like ($res being the response object) - Ant	[reply]