in reply to Re: LWP - content_cb
in thread LWP - content_cb

I already tried using

open $data, ">downloaded.pdf"; close $data;

A downloaded.pdf its created but appear be empty.

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Re^3: LWP - content_cb
by Eliya (Vicar) on Feb 15, 2012 at 04:11 UTC

    This doesn't work because (if anything) $data becomes a file handle, but nothing is printed to it.

    The idea would be to open a file handle outside of the callback routine, e.g.

    open my $fh, ">", "downloaded.pdf" or die $!; binmode $fh; # for when you're on a system (like Windows) where line +feeds are translated

    and then within the callback routine, successively print the data to it

    sub callback { my ($data, $response, $protocol) = @_; print $fh $data; ... }

      Really Thx for help, but same thing, a file is created but empyt...

        Try this code:
        #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use LWP::Simple; use LWP::UserAgent; my $urlin = shift || "http://zentara.net/zentara.avi"; my $infile = "zentara1.avi" ; print "gettin video file : $infile\n"; # don't buffer the prints to make the status update $| = 1; open(IN,"> $infile") or die "$_\n"; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my $received_size = 0; my $request_time = time; my $last_update = 0; my $response = $ua->get($urlin, ':content_cb' => \&callback, ':read_size_hint' => 8192, ); print "\n"; close IN; #play the flv file with mplayer # system( "mplayer $infile" ); ############################################# sub callback { my ($data, $response, $protocol) = @_; my $total_size = $response->header('Content-Length') || 0; $received_size += length $data; # write the $data to a filehandle or whatever should happen # with it here. print IN $data; my $time_now = time; # this to make the status only update once per second. return unless $time_now > $last_update or $received_size == $total_s +ize; $last_update = $time_now; print "\rReceived $received_size bytes"; printf " (%i%%)", (100/$total_size)*$received_size if $total_size; printf " %6.1f/bps", $received_size/(($time_now-$request_time)||1) if $received_size; } __END__

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