If all you want to do is download the file, try this...

# Tested
use LWP::Simple;

my $localfile = 'myfile.pdf';
my $remotefile =
'http://historychannel.aestaging.com/egypt/EgyptTeacherGuide.pdf';

open OUT, "> $localfile";
binmode OUT;
print OUT get($remotefile);
close OUT;

Rob


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Shade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 11:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Download a file from the web


I am writing a perl script that converts various documents and even
websites to text and emails it back to the sender. I have been succesful
with converting websites that have Office documents in the url
(e.g. http://www.somesite.com/worddocument.doc), however I am not
successful with converting urls with pdf files in them. I know I can
convert them to text once I have them on my hard drive, but how can I
download a PDF file from a website
(e.g. http://www.somesite.com/MYfile.pdf)? Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Brian

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