I'm trying to use the modules mentioned above to fetch zip files over https, using ActivePerl 5.8.9 on a Windows 7 machine. Here's a section of the code:

sub Download
{
  my $u = shift; # URL (e.g. https://server.org/file.zip)
  my $p = shift; # output file path/name

  my $ua  = LWP::UserAgent->new;
  $ua->timeout(10);
  my $req = HTTP::Request->new('GET', $u);
  my $res = $ua->request($req);

  print "Requesting $u\n";

  open OUT, ">", $p or die "Can't save output: $!";
  binmode(OUT);
  if ($res->is_success)
  {
    print OUT $res->content;
    close OUT or die "$!";    
    return 0;
  }
  else
  {
    print "Could not fetch $u\n";
    close OUT or die "$!";
    return 1;
  }
}

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The SSL connection seems to be negotiated correctly and the code is able to fetch a 500-byte file, but when I try files around 200K in size the script hangs. Does anyone have any suggestions?

In reply to Hang when downloading with LWP::Useragent and Crypt::SSLeay (Windows) by knirirr

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