in reply to Re^2: using LWP::Simple to fetch binary file (gnu zip)
in thread using LWP::Simple to fetch binary file (gnu zip)

The problem is you are calling a function as a method:

$hstatus =  LWP::Simple->getstore ($text, $filename);

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Change that to:

$hstatus =  getstore ($text, $filename);

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And it will work.

Effectively you are calling the function with the string 'LWP::Simple' as the first argument where it is expecting a URL. It tries to parse that to discover the protocol (http://, https://, ftp:// etc.) that it should use and doesn't find anything it recognises, so it return 501-Not Implemented.

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Re^4: using LWP::Simple to fetch binary file (gnu zip)
by Largins (Acolyte) on Jan 25, 2012 at 21:52 UTC

    Thanks very much.
    Although I have been programming for many years (1st line of code on a Burroughs t series 1965), I am new (by a few months) to perl
    For the life of me, I couldn't see what was wrong, but now I see my error

    Thanks again, and thanks to perlmonks for this site

    Largins

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