in reply to web downloading via lwp
This is not a lot of info to go on. But you might have a look at Win32::IEAutomation. Sometimes it's the only thing you can use if you want to access sites that have javascript, applets, flash, and such like. It basically hacks IE to let your perl script do the driving.
My guess is that you could use this to open a download window in IE and download the file, then you'd have to find and open that file with your script.
Of course you have to be on windoze to use it.
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