[TriLUG] perl: GET'ing large file with LWP

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Joseph Tate wrote:

Thanks Joseph, Greg,

> I'd use two requests; HEAD for the headers, then GET to get it
> afterwards after processing the headers.  Yes, it's a bit redundant,
> but otherwise you're writing the HTTP protocol yourself.

I didn't realise I could do it in two steps. I thought you 
did a GET and then parsed everything from the response. Let 
me try it in two steps

Joe

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