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i looked at that but i could not find a way to write the resulting data to disk. The when i read through the module I noticed there was a note explaining why. I need to dump the data to a file while i debug and write the app.
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Re^3: libpcap, netpacket and decoding http data
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 17, 2010 at 15:23 UTC

    You can write things to disk, but you will first accumulate the complete download in RAM. The module documentation says so.

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      Am I looking at a different module or simply reading this document wrong. http://search.cpan.org/~corion/Sniffer-HTTP-0.19/lib/Sniffer/HTTP.pm "As the whole response data is accumulated in memory you should be aware of memory issues. If you want to write stuff directly to disk, you will need to submit patches to Sniffer::Connection::HTTP."
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        Note the directly. Currently, the module accumulates the complete request payload in RAM until the request has completed. Then it returns that data to your callback (for writing) and afterwards the memory is released.

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