[Chicago-talk] Simulating "Save Link As" in Perl

[Vijay Kumar]

Apologies. Please ignore this mail.
I did a mistake in my testing. It works.

Thanks
VIJAY



On 14 September 2011 04:50, Vijay Kumar <vjcang at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   When I access below $binaryfile_url (some url pointing to a binary file)
> from a web browser, I get HTTP Error 404.
>   However, I can save the binary file to my hard disk by right clicking the
> url and selectung 'Save Link As'.
>
>   Now, when I try this with LWP::Simple
>       my $status=getstore($binaryfile_url, $download_file_fullpath);
>   it fails with the same 404 error.
>
>   I want to simulate the 'Save Link As' behavior of the web browser to
> download it programmatically from Perl. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks a lot
> VIJAY
>



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VIJAY
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