Re: web downloading via lwp

This is not a lot of info to go on. But you might have a look at Win32::IEAutomation. Sometimes it's the only thing you can use if you want to access sites that have javascript, applets, flash, and such like. It basically hacks IE to let your perl script do the driving.

My guess is that you could use this to open a download window in IE and download the file, then you'd have to find and open that file with your script.

Of course you have to be on windoze to use it.

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Re^2: web downloading via lwp by 23penguins (Initiate) on May 19, 2010 at 04:27 UTC
Sorry for the confusion. All the lwp examples I have seen return content. And when they talk about saving files, they talk about saving the content of the request. Basically , my url does not point to a static text page, or a file. My url runs code. The code finds the file, pulls it out of the repository, packages it up and then launches the "save as" dialog box. I have looked at Win32::IEAutomation. I cannot figure out how to automate the "open a download window in IE and download the file" part. My url already already opens the download window. Thanks	[reply]

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Re^2: web downloading via lwp
by 23penguins (Initiate) on May 19, 2010 at 04:27 UTC

Sorry for the confusion. All the lwp examples I have seen return content. And when they talk about saving files, they talk about saving the content of the request. Basically , my url does not point to a static text page, or a file. My url runs code. The code finds the file, pulls it out of the repository, packages it up and then launches the "save as" dialog box. I have looked at Win32::IEAutomation. I cannot figure out how to automate the "open a download window in IE and download the file" part. My url already already opens the download window. Thanks

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