I am working on a kind of photo album, where you have a browser admin page to put a picture and text in.
There shall be two possibities to define the picture source. One is upload from your computer, this working fine, so far. The other one shall be an URL to get a picture from the internet. I want to use LWP to keep perlish :) and there is one problem:

There is http or ftp download possible, how do I get LWP only to download images and no other mimetypes?

If you want to look to a snippet of the running code, take a look at my scratchpad at my homenode.
As this code is running at linux I could do a system call with file to proove it is an image *after* having downloaded the file. But this is awful, isn't it?

adTHANXvance
--

there are no silly questions
killerhippy

In reply to LWP to download images, how to let LWP decide, wether it is an image or not? by khippy

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.