How do I download a file using Perl?

Question

I\'m running Perl on Windows XP, and I need to download a file from the URL http://marinetraffic2.aegean.gr/ais/getkml.aspx.

How should I do this? I have attempted u

Answer 1

I used File::Fetch as this is a core Perl module (I didn't need to install any additional packages) and will try a number of different ways to download a file depending on what's installed on the system.

use File::Fetch;
my $url = 'http://www.example.com/file.txt';
my $ff = File::Fetch->new(uri => $url);
my $file = $ff->fetch() or die $ff->error;

Note that this module will in fact try to use LWP first if it is installed...