Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Im using Active State perl, but I am unable to download a file from the internet. My script works on a unix machine that uses libwww-perl-5.10, so I need to know how to use this lib file in active state on windows. Is it even possible? Thanks

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Re: Active State question
by Marza (Vicar) on May 17, 2002 at 17:46 UTC

    I hate to say; It depends. Without code I can say "normally, yes it should work"

    Posting your Code would be a good thing here as downloads are performed in different fashion. Are you using ftp? HTML?

    Post some of your code and we may help you better.

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      This is the conection part of the code: 
      require LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use Digest::MD5;

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->credentials("url.com", "Datafeeds", $user, $password);

# URL where to download the database and its updates
$url      = "http://url/moreurl/$user/vuldb/";

 
sub check_files {
  stat("vdb-dump");
  die "No database dump found.\n" if !-d _;
}

      [download]
      I keep getting the error " cannot dowload: 401 Authorization Required"
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