On Tuesday 12 September 2006 10:27, Rob Dixon wrote: > I think so Robin, thanks. But I'm still not clear whether you really need > to retrieve the data through a filehandle; surely any suitable means of IPC > will do? Well yes, any IPC thing would do. However, I figured that handles represent streams of data, and what I want is a stream of data, so I should use a handle.
> What may help is that LWP allows for a callback to be specified in the > get() call, so that the downloaded data can be passed in chunks to a > user-written subroutine as it arrives. Use > $agent->get($url, ':content_cb' => \&callback); Hmm, that looks promising. But it would require making a significant bit of my code a lot less generic. > Now I start to get a little out of my depth here, as I'm essentially a > Windows man, but I suspect that your program could write these chunks to a > pipe which is then opened and read by the processing program through a > filehandle. It could, but I don't want it to. It's a little bit ugly :) It would also require threads, which I know I can do without if I can get the data as a handle. > Another suggestion is to look at IO::All::LWP, which extends the IO::All > module to handle LWP connections. However, I have no experience of this > module and can help you no further with it. I'll take a look there, too. Thanks. -- Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JabberID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est? PGP Key 0xA99CEB6D = 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D
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