in reply to using LWP to download and save an mp3

Consider this the request to post your code. You don't show how you save the file. I recommend using the ->mirror() function of LWP::Simple to save files. Most likely you're missing a binmode call on the filehandle you're saving to.

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Re^2: using LWP to download and save an mp3
by j3f (Novice) on Jan 16, 2009 at 21:16 UTC
    Here is the code that shows the way I was trying to save the file.I'll try using the function that you suggested and see if it solves my problem and I'm guessing that it will. Thanks 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w




use LWP::UserAgent;


$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0');
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://sight.com/action.php?id=u1
+VInM4D');
$req->content_type('audio/x-mpeg');

# Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
my $res = $ua->request($req);


# Check the outcome of the response
if ($res->is_success) {

open FH, ">file.mp3";
print FH $res->content;
close FH;

 }

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