Hi John, Here's a little script that retrieves a word document from a webserver and saves it to the local filesystem.
<snip> #!perl.exe -w use strict; use LWP::Simple; my $url = 'http://somewhere.com/somedoc.doc'; my $sav = 'd:\mydoc.doc'; my $doc = get($url); open(F,">$sav") || die "Cannot create file: $sav\n$!"; binmode F; #this is essential print F $doc; close(F); </snip> HTH t0by -----Original Message----- From: John Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Copying files via HTTP I want to copy a variety of files from web addresses (.doc, .xls, .ppt). What's the best way? jmc _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
