LWP download question for .gz file

[iggitme]

Sorry for the interruption gang but I find myself once again needing a solution. Tek-Tips is my favorite site to acquire such things but in extensive search and reading everything I have not found this solution.

Need to grab a .gz file from another server. I have permission and the proper download link but everytime I try lwp-download it just dies

I'm sure this has to be me and a stupid mistake I'm not finding but I have tried every conceivable code combination I could find and still no success.

I would paste the code used here but i've tossed out so much i only have the most recent failure code, so I'm treating this as starting from scratch.

Does anybody please have the full code to download and save a .gz file?

It would be like massive karma and wonderful appreciation if this is possible.

Thanks

 

[Annihilannic]

Have you tried simply adapting the example code on the perldoc LWP page? Then you can just print the $res->content into a file, job done. I did the same recently to download some .jpg images.

Annihilannic.

 

[iggitme]

Yes I did, It was the first option I tried. Got the file, totally corrupted.

Another option would be a really good thing about now.

Thank you for the response!

 

[Annihilannic]

Try changing the content_type to 'application/octet-stream'.

Annihilannic.

 

[iggitme]

Finally got the solution for this. Thank you for the help guys! I'll try to get back in here soon to post it.