Grapping File Problem

I was trying to write a perl script to grap a mov file for me. I know it worked when I used the same script to grap images. But when I tried to get the .mov file, quicktime viewer says there's something wrong with it.

the code is as follows

require LWP::UserAgent;
require HTTP::Request;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
writeFile('http://a496.g.akamai.net/5/496/51/36707eff03de83/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e8177ae955ca3799026392f861 cf309cfb61c230a40578 f1/finalfantasy_480.mov');

sub writeFile
{
my ($site) = @_;
print "Getting $site...n";
print "Saving Filen";

$request = GET "$site";
$response = $ua->request($request);

if ($response->is_success)
{
open(outFile, ">final.mov");
print outFile ($response->content());
close(outFile);
# print 'Success!';
}
else
{
print 'ERROR!';
}
}

Thanks for any suggestions in advance.

Ben

Grabbing and storing, why not try something like this?

#############################################
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

$local_path = "/path/to";
use LWP::Simple;
$target_file = "http://a496.g.akamai.net/5/496/51/36707eff03de83/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e8177ae955ca3799026392f861 cf309cfb61c230a40578f1/finalfa ntasy_480.mov";
getstore("$target_file","$local_path/final.mov");
print "Content-type: text/htmlnn";
if (-e "$local_path/final.mov") {
print "Success!n";
}
else {
print "Error!n";
}
#############################################

Thanks. It's working great. But out of curiousity, why didn't my script work? I was getting all the bits and constructing the new file. should work the same why I guess?

>>why didn't my script work?

Because of a missing line:

print "Content-type: text/htmlnn";

But still, it should fetch the *.mov file okay.

Also, your

print "Saving Filen";

line is not in the appropriate position. It should be in the same line as open(outFile, ">final.mov");

A rewrite of your script would be:

#############################################
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/htmlnn";
require LWP::UserAgent;
require HTTP::Request;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
writeFile('http://a496.g.akamai.net/5/496/51/36707eff03de83/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e8177ae955ca3799026392f861 cf309cfb61c230a40578
f1/finalfantasy_480.mov');

sub writeFile {
my ($site) = @_;
print "Getting $site..<br>n";
$request = GET "$site";
$response = $ua->request($request);

if ($response->is_success) {
open(outFile, ">final.mov") && print "Saving File as final.mov<br>n" | | &error("Unable to create final.mov<br>n");
print outFile ($response->content());
close(outFile);
print "Success!n";
}
else {
&error("Error in fetching!n");
}
}

sub error {
my (@messages) = @_;
my $message;
foreach $message (@messages) {
print $message;
}
#############################################

[This message has been edited by freebsd (edited October 07, 2000).]