Hello Monks, I'm trying to scrap a flash enabled website(http://concerts.livenation.com/event/04004B76DB4C779A?tm_link=search_msg-0_04004B76DB4C779A&crosssite=TM_US:735415:32837).Hera I'm trying to get the availability of seats from flash screen. I have found http link which the flash app uses using MozRepl in firefox. But a part of xml which I get is encrypted. Is it due to gzip format?? I'm pasting the code here. Please enlighten me. Thanks 

 #!C:\Perl\bin\perl

use LWP::UserAgent;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Date::Simple qw/ date today /;
use XML::SImple;
use Compress::Zlib;

local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { };

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent(
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/201004
+01 Firefox/3.6.3 (FM Scene 4.6.1)"
);


my $xs = XML::Simple->new();


my $url = "http://concerts.livenation.com/app/availability/04004B76DB4
+C779A";


my $response = $ua->get($url);


if ( $response->is_success ) {
    print $response->decoded_content;
     my $ref =
      $xs->XMLin( $response->decoded_content );
      
       #open FILE, ">f.gz";
       #                 binmode(FILE);
        #                print FILE $ref->{ev_comp};    # or whatever
        #                close FILE;
        print  Compress::Zlib::memGunzip($ref->{ev_comp});
  
}
else {
    #die $response->status_line;
    print "\t[FAILURE]\n";
}

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